Dread Nation
Justina Ireland
Top 10 Best Quotes
“See, the problem in this world ain’t sinners, or even the dead. It is men who will step on anyone who stands in the way of their pursuit of power.”
“It’s a cruel, cruel world. And the people are the worst part.”
“There’s nothing white folks hate more than realizing they accidentally treated a Negro like a person.”
“My momma always said the best way to get what you want from people is to give them what they think they want. They expected me to be stupid, so I used that to our advantage.”
“Sometimes it’s easier to think about other folks’ small hurts than your big ones.”
“Maybe that’s your problem. You been waiting for a man.”
“But that's the way life goes most of the time: the thing you least count on comes along and ruins everything else you got planned.”
“The day I came squealing and squalling into the world was the first time someone tried to kill me. I guess it should have been obvious to everyone right then that I wasn't going to have a normal life.”
“Someday, if not today, you will see that this life is nothing without people to love”
“Momma used to say that a politician was a man that had perfected the art of lying,”
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