137 Quotes by Jason Reynolds

And without power, all the protesting in the world meant nothing. The shift went from fighting for civil rights to fighting for freedom. The difference between the two is simple. One implies a fight for fairness. The other, a right to live.

It had been a few days since everything went down, and when you're used to hanging out with a person every single day, a few days off can sometimes seem more like a few months.

Your dream is the mole behind your ear, that chip in your front tooth, your freckles.It's the thing that makes you special, but not the thing that makes you great.The courage in trying, the passion in living, and the acknowledgement and appreciation of the beauty happening around you does that.

My eyesswollen with exhaustion,my body sputteringon its way down,but my dream won't stop crying,screaminglike a colicky infant.Sometimes I thinkit needs to be changed.usuallyit just needs to be fed.

One thing I am now certain ofis that this road less traveled hasin factbeen traveled by far more suckersthan you think.All of us out here,slumped over wearingweird fakebroken smiles,trying to avoid the truth:That we all have road rage.

Dreams don't have timelines, deadlines, and aren't always in straight lines.

We had been texting for exactly thirteen minutes, asking random questions, trying to figure out if we knew any of the same people, or if we liked the same kind of music--the usual interview process you go through when you're trying to get the job as boyfriend.

I do believe we can do better, be better. But we can't hide behind fear. We can't tuck truth between the cushions of comfort. We have to deal with it, really confront it, so that our children can live with a lot less weight. We owe it to them.

The first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past. By acknowledging America's racist past, we can acknowledge America's racist present. In acknowledging America's racist present, we can work toward building an antiracist America.