8 Quotes by Christina Hammonds Reed

They don't fucking see us even when they're looking right at us.

Sometimes when you want to disappear, it's easiest to hide in music.

I feel ashamed that black people are both the agents and the victims of this chaos, and I don't want to be thought of like that. But I'm also ashamed of myself for thinking I'm somehow better. The shame I feel in my guts, pulsing, spiraling; but also everything feels very far away. I'm black, but my black is different from that of those rioters on TV.

Sometimes it's hard being a girl, and it's hard being black. Being both is like carrying a double load, but you're not supposed to complain about it. There are so many things you have to remember about how to be.

Nobody calls boys sluts.

We have to walk around being perfect all the time just to be seen as human. Don't you ever get tired of being a symbol? Don't you ever just want to be human?

It's not just about Rodney. It's about all of us.

It's the lyric about hate multiplying that gets to me most. It's like nothing ever changes.