Kekla Magoon Quotes

#1. People make mistakes. They look at the surface of things and see what they want to.

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#2. In the white newspapers, they use it against us. They make the Panthers look like we all just want to rip the throats out of some white folks for no good reason. We have good reasons, but we still don't want to do that.

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#3. I'm really good with problems. I can solve a differential equation in my head. I chew through trig angles like candy. I know this, and it just makes it worse. Because I don't know how to solve this one.

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#4. The river moves, but it follows a path. When it tires of one journey, it rubs through some rock to forge a new way. Hard work, but that's its nature.

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#5. You're only responsible for your own actions. You can't control how someone else reacts to what you do. You made a choice. Stand by it.

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#6. As a black man, you have to keep your head down. You have to keep yourself steady. You have to follow every rule that's ever been written, plus a few that have always remained unspoken.

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#7. It seemed like a backward step at first, but now I know going back was the only way to show how far I've come.

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#8. The river is motion, turmoil, rage. As the river flows, it wonders what it would be like to be so still, to take a breath, to rest. But the rock will always wonder what lies around the bend in the stream.

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#9. If you just play really hard, he says, nothing else matters.

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#10. It's not that you said it. I care that you even though it.

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#11. My moves are smooth. Always have been. I'm smart enough to see what's coming, and clever enough to turn it my way. All my skills make me perfect for this. The street dance. The hustle.

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#12. I glance through the rear window at the house. It amazes me slightly that it looks the same as it did, though it's been gutted of so many valuable things. You wouldn't know, to walk past that house, what it had lost. It looks as proud, and as firm, and as fancy as ever. As whole.

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#13. Anyone who can see will see you beautiful.

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#14. My shoes dangle from my fingertips because, all things considered, barefoot is better.

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#15. I wish she would just look at me, look at my face and stop talking long enough to see me. To see that things are not right. That none of this is real and I am in some other place.

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