15 Quotes by Mark Oshiro

Anger is a gift. Remember that.” She stood. “You gotta grasp onto it, hold it tight and use it as ammunition. You use that anger to get things done instead of just stewing in it.

But we just wanted to go to school.” Her voice broke again. “I’m sixteen. I shouldn’t have to beg for that. But we just want to get to class without fearing for our lives.

It’s like people want me to be this version of a person that isn’t me. Like, always ready to fight and march and rally, and I don’t even get to be myself.

It wasn’t the first time Moss had heard the pop of a gunshot. Nor was it the first time he’d heard the sickening sound of air leaving someone’s body. The sound meant the worst.

It’s an insidious thing,” Wanda said. “It never happens overnight. This kind of thing crept into our community a long time ago. It latched on. It fed on prejudice. Selfishness. Peoples inability to see life through someone else’s eyes. And it grew, bigger and bigger, until we got to a point where some people don’t even question why a cop should be allowed to shoot first and ask questions later.

They’re creepy! I got some dude on one of them telling me that he wished I would do more than his taxes.” She shuddered. “Men are trash.