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"If yous are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"Had our hearts actually become so numb that nosotros needed dead bodies in order to feel the vanquish of compassion in our chests? Who am I if I need to exist shocked back into my all-time cocky?"
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"Because racism was alive and existent as shit. It was everywhere and all mixed up in everything, and the only people who said it wasn't, and the only people who said, "Don't talk about information technology" were white. Well, stop lying. That's what I wanted to tell those people. Cease lying. Stop denying. That'south why I was marching. Nothing was going to modify unless nosotros did something about it. Nosotros! White people!"
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"History can only teach its lesson if it is remembered."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"I wanted him to know that I saw him, a guy who, even with a tear-streaked face, seemed to have two tiny smiles framing his eyes like parentheses, a guy on the ground pantomiming his decease to remind the world he was alive."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"In 2012, in the United Kingdom, the number of people (regardless of race) shot and killed past police officers: 1 In 2013, in the United Kingdom, the number of times police force officers fired guns in the line of duty/the number of people fatally shot: 3/0 In the United states, in the seven twelvemonth catamenia ending in 2012, a white constabulary officer killed a black person nearly two times a calendar week. "I'g non much of a talker," she finished up. "Yous know that. Simply I know numbers. The numbers don't prevarication, kids. The numbers always tell a story."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"Sometimes, when people get treated as less than human, the best manner to aid them feel better is to just treat them every bit human. Not as victims. But y'all as you. Rashad Butler, earlier all this."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"Nobody says the words anymore, but somehow the violence nevertheless remains. If I didn't want the violence to remain, I had to practise a hell of a lot more than only say the right things and not say the wrong things."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"This is a roll phone call! SEAN Bell! And so she followed with "Absent again today! OSCAR GRANT! Absent once again today! REKIA BOYD! Absent again today! RAMARLEY GRAHAM!" She paused, and at that signal the rest of us knew exactly what to do. "Absent-minded over again today!" "AIYANA JONES!" "Absent once more today!" "FREDDIE Grey!" "Absent again today!" "MICHAEL BROWN!" "Absent again today!" "TAMIR RICE!" "Absent again today!" "ERIC GARNER!" "Absent again today!" "TARIKA WILSON!" "Absent once again today!" And Spoony kept feeding Berry the papers, one afterward another, as she continued to read down the list of unarmed black people killed by the law."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"I do believe we tin can exercise amend, be better. But we can't hibernate behind fear. Nosotros can't tuck truth between the cushions of condolement. We take to bargain with it, really face up it, so that our children can live with a lot less weight. We owe it to them."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"Not like KKK racist," she said. "I don't think most people recall they're racist. But every time something like this happens, you could, like you said, say, 'Not my trouble.' You could say, 'It'due south a ane-time thing.' Every time information technology happened."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"Nobody says the words anymore, merely somehow the violence withal remains."
― Brendan Kiely, All American Boys

"But do protests even work? I asked. I mean, I was all for the thought. I really was. But the only time I had ever heard near any protests actually working was Dr. King's. Thats information technology. Own't never heard of no other ones making a difference.

Berry stepped in. "They're a piece to the puzzle. I hateful in that location are a lot of pieces, like reforming laws and things like that. But protests are what sends the message to the folks in power that something needs to change. That people are fed up, she explained. "We have a correct to vocalisation how we feel, and isn't that better than but doing zero."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"I hateful, I had seen this happen and so many times. Not personally, but on Telly. In the news. People getting beaten, and sometimes killed, by the cops, and then there's all this fuss almost information technology, only to build up to a big heartbreak when null happens. The cops get off. And everybody cries and waits for the next expressionless kid, to do it all over over again. That'south the way the story goes. A different kind of Lifetime movie. I didn't desire all that. Didn't need it."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"...nobody owes you anything, so when you get something, be beholden."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"some people had told me racism was a matter of he past, they'd told me not to get involved. But that was nuts. They were nuts. And more than to the signal---they'due south all been white people. Well approximate what? I'm white likewise ---and that's exactly why I'grand marching. I had to. Because racism was alive and real as shit. Information technology was everywhere and all mixed upward in everything, and the simply people who aids it wasn't, and the just people was said, "Don't talk about it" were white. Well, cease lying. That'southward what I wanted to tell those people. Stop lying. Stop Denying. That's why I'm marching. Goose egg was going to change unless nosotros did something almost information technology. We! White people! We had to stand up and say something about it goo, because otherwise information technology was simply similar what those posters in the crowd outside school said: OUR SILENCE IS Another KIND OF VIOLENCE."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"Paul'd gotten it all wrong. Becoming a cop would not make him a hero- but what kind of cop he became could have."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"Fear. Like the way Ma told me to cross the street to the other side of the sidewalk if I was walking abode alone and I saw a group of guys walking toward me. Guys. That wasn't the word she used. Thugs. Fear of thugs. Just like what some people were saying on the news. Rashad looked like a thug."
― Brendan Kiely, All American Boys

"You think it's impaired when someone says there's no 'I' in team, merely you stick one in there and y'all see how dumb that looks."
― Brendan Kiely, All American Boys

"Do you know the stats? Information technology's something like black people are twice equally likely to have no weapons on them when they're killed by cops. Twice equally likely! Should I run down the listing of the people this has happened to? Calm down? Let's paint their names on the walls and watch, there'll exist enough to give the entire hospital a fresh new await. Then tell me to at-home down. He could've been killed!"
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"Your left! Your left! Your left-correct-left! Your left! Your left! Your left-right-left! Yeah, yeah, yep. I left. I left. I left-left-left that wack school and that even more than wack ROTC drill team because information technology was Fri, which to me, and basically every other person on Earth, meant it was time to party. Okay, perchance not everybody on Earth. I'm sure there was a monk somewhere on a mount who might've been thinking of something else. But I wasn't no monk. Thank God. So for me and my friends, Friday was just another word for political party. Monday, Tuesday, Hump Solar day (because who tin can resist the discussion "hump"?), Thursday, and Party."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"What information technology was like to love something plenty to do anything to come up dorsum to information technology."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"I really, really didn't. I just wanted him to stop chirapsia me. I just wanted to live."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"I mean, I had seen this happen and then many times. Not personally, simply on TV. In the news. People getting beaten, and sometimes killed, by the cops, and and then in that location'southward all this fuss about information technology, only to build up to a large heartbreak when null happens. The cops go off. And everybody cries and waits for the next expressionless kid, to do it all over again. That'southward the fashion the story goes. A different kind of Lifetime moving picture."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"Douglas's work. And the first time Mrs. Caperdeen showed us a slide from his series Aspects of Negro Life, I knew the kind of art I wanted to start making. So I did. The just difference was that I framed mine in a circumvolve, like The Family Circus. And that'south why I needed Ma to brand sure she brought me my sketch pad and pencils. I woke up early on, and before doing anything else, earlier getting upward and having a morning pee, or brushing my teeth, or spirometering, I turned the Television on, muted it, then grabbed my stuff and starting sketching on a fresh page. I wasn't sure what I was drawing. That'southward not truthful. I knew exactly what I was drawing. The only thing I could. I was"
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"Now don't get me incorrect. I don't have a problem with a skilful prayer. I mean, I believe in God. At least I recollect I do. I just wondered where God was when I was beingness mopped past that cop. And I knew that's what the pastor had come to tell me. That God was there. That God was always there. Which, to me, is the wrong thing to say, because if he or information technology or whatever was in that location and didn't do nothing, and so that would make God my enemy. Because he let it happen. I would much rather Pastor Johnson say that God wasn't there. That he was decorated. That he turned his dorsum, just for a second, to bank check on somebody else, and that asshole officer snuck right past him and got me. Only… nope."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"Just and so yous know, patent leather shoes should only be for men who are getting married. Nothing about patent leather says "war."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"some rich old white dude, chillin' on the Eastward Side, doing his thing with some immature supermodel with fake everything on a mattress made of real money. Lotto-ticket money."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"some rich old white dude, chillin' on the Due east Side, doing his thing with some immature supermodel with fake everything on a mattress made of real money. Lotto-ticket money. Cheap-forty-ounce coin. Bootleg-DVD money. My coin."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"My hands were already up, a reflex from seeing a cop coming toward me."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

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