The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas, 2017
Young adult Contemporary fiction
A black teenager in a mostly white school finds her voice after witnessing a police shooting—a fast, funny, furious novel about family, code-switching and speaking up.
Feels like hope and grief. About family.
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The distance between tweeting outrage and speaking it out loud.
I’ve seen it happen over and over again: a black person gets killed just for being black, and all hell breaks loose. I’ve tweeted RIP hashtags, reblogged pictures on Tumblr, and signed every petition out there. I always said that if I saw it happen to somebody, I would have the loudest voice, making sure the world knew what went down.Now I am that person, and I’m too afraid to speak. Angie Thomas.The title expands Tupac Shakur's THUG LIFE acronym: 'The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody'—Thomas has said it means hate fed to children returns as violence.
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- What is The Hate U Give like?
- Feels like hope and grief. About family.
- What should I read after The Hate U Give?
- If you liked The Hate U Give, try I Am Malala (Malala Yousafzai), The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Heather Morris) and The Color Purple (Alice Walker).
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Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don’t think power is in the hands of the woman who takes care of everyone all day long, and gives birth to their children.
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What a man promises himself when survival is not enough.
Lale makes a vow to himself: I will live to leave this place. I will walk out a free man. If there is a hell, I will see these murderers burn in it.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz · Heather Morris
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God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don’t know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. Sorrow, lord. Feeling like shit. It? I ask. Yeah, It. God ain’t a he or a she, but a It. But what do it look like? I ask. Don’t look like nothing, she say. It ain’t a picture show. It ain’t something you can look at apart from anything else, including yourself.
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