Starr Carter quotes show the raw truth of racial prejudice.
Starr Carter lives in two worlds – her predominantly white, affluent school in the suburbs and her neighborhood pervaded with poverty and gang violence.
She narratively uses her distinctive voice to weave these contrasting realities.
She’s caught in a tangle of loyalty, a desire for justice, and the fear of retribution.
Experience the painful aftermath of her best friend’s death and the unjust system that is the pebble of discontent in the still waters of her community.
The Hate U Give Quotes With Page Numbers
Starr Carter Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 1
“You need Saturday to recover and Sunday to repent.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 1, Page 4
“It’s dope to be black until it’s hard to be black.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 1, Page 11
“Pac said Thug Life stood for ‘The Hate U Give Little Infants F*** Everybody’.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 1, Page 17
Starr Carter Quotes Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 2
“When I was twelve, my parents had two talks with me.
One was the usual birds and bees. Well, I didn’t really get the usual version. My mom, Lisa, is a registered nurse, and she told me what went where, and what didn’t need to go here, there, or any damn where till I’m grown. Back then, I doubted anything was going anywhere anyway. While all the other girls sprouted breasts between sixth and seventh grade, my chest was as flat as my back.
The other talk was about what to do if a cop stopped me.
Momma fussed and told Daddy I was too young for that. He argued that I wasn’t too young to get arrested or shot.
“Starr-Starr, you do whatever they tell you to do,” he said. “Keep your hands visible. Don’t make any sudden moves. Only speak when they speak to you.”
I knew it must’ve been serious. Daddy has the biggest mouth of anybody I know, and if he said to be quiet, I needed to be quiet.
I hope somebody had the talk with Khalil.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 2, Pages 20, 21
Quotes From Starr Carter With Page Numbers Chapter 3
“I’ve seen it happen over and over again: a black person gets killed just for being black, and all hell breaks loose. I’ve tweeted RIP hashtags, reblogged pictures on Tumblr, and signed every petition out there. I always said that if I saw it happen to somebody, I would have the loudest voice, making sure the world knew what went down.
Now I am that person, and I’m too afraid to speak.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 3, Page 34
“Something to live for, something to die for.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 4, Pages 37, and 200
Starr Carter Quotes Quotes And Page Numbers Chapter 5
“The truth casts a shadow over the kitchen—people like us in situations like this become hashtags, but they rarely get justice. I think we all wait for that one time though, that one time when it ends right.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 5, Page 59
“People like us in situations like this become hashtags, but they rarely get justice. I think we all wait for that one time though, that one time when it ends right.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 5, Page 59
“Good-byes hurt the most when the other person’s already gone.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 5, Page 66
“I hope none of them ask about my spring break. They went to Taipei, the Bahamas, Harry Potter World. I stayed in the hood and saw a cop kill my friend.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 5, Page 77
“He got a tan over break. I used to tell him he was so pale he looked like a marshmallow. He hated that I compared him to food. I told him that’s what he got for calling me caramel. It shut him up.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 5, Page 79
“Once you’ve seen how broken someone is it’s like seeing them naked—you can’t look at them the same anymore.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 5, Page 83
Starr Carter Quotes Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 8
“Funerals aren’t for dead people. They’re for the living.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 8, Page 122
Starr Carter Quotes Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 9
“looked me in the eye and, said, ‘ Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter and Lisa Carter, Chapter 9, Page 154
Starr Carter Quotes Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 10
“Right. Lack of opportunities,” Daddy says. “Corporate America don’t bring jobs to our communities, and they damn sure ain’t quick to hire us. Then, shit, even if you do have a high school diploma, so many of the schools in our neighborhoods don’t prepare us well enough. That’s why when your momma talked about sending you and your brothers to Williamson, I agreed. Our schools don’t get the resources to equip you like Williamson does. It’s easier to find some crack that it is the find a good school around here.
“Now, think ’bout this,” he says. “How did the drugs even get in our neighborhood? This is a multibillion-dollar industry we talking ’bout, baby. That shit is flown into our communities, but I don’t know anybody with a private jet. Do you?”
“No.”
“Exactly. Drugs come from somewhere, and they’re destroying our community,” he says. “You got folks like Brenda, who think they need them survive, and then you got the Khalils, who think they need to sell them to survive. The Brendas can’t get jobs unless they’re clean, and they can’t pay for rehab unless they got jobs. When the Khalils get arrested for selling drugs, they either spend most of their life in prison, another billion-dollar industry, or they have a hard time getting a real job and probably start selling drugs again. That’s the hate they’re giving us, baby, a system designed against us. That’s Thug Life.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter and Maverick “Big Mav” Carter, Chapter 10, Pages 169, 170
Starr Carter Quotes Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 11
“Daddy once told me there’s a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn’t stop the slave masters from hurting their families. Daddy also said there’s nothing more dangerous than when that rage is activated.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 11, Page 196
Starr Carter Quotes Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 14
“My son loved working in the neighborhood,” One-Fifteen’s father claims. “He always wanted to make a difference in the lives there.”
Funny. Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.” Same shit, different century. I wish people like them would stop thinking that people like me need saving.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, One-Fifteens father and Starr Carter, Chapter 14, Page 245
“What’s the point of having a voice if you’re gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn’t be?”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 14, Page 252
“That’s the problem. We let people say stuff, and they say it so much that it becomes okay to them and normal for us. What’s the point of having a voice if you’re gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn’t be?”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 14, Page 252
Starr Carter Quotes Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 15
“What is Tumblr anyway? Is it like Facebook?”
“No, and you’re forbidden to get one. No parents allowed. You guys already took over Facebook.”~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Lisa Carter and Starr Carter, Chapter 15, Page 263
Starr Carter Quotes Part 2: Five Weeks After Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 16
“If bravery is a medical condition, everybody’s misdiagnosed me.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 16, Page 284
“I’d ask him if he wished he shot me too.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 16, Page 290
“When you fight, you put yourself out there, not caring who you hurt or if you’ll get hurt.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 16, Page 290
Starr Carter Quotes Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 17
“I’ve taught myself to speak with two different voices and only say certain things around certain people. I’ve mastered it.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 17, Page 301
Starr Carter Quotes Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 18
“Intentions always look better on paper than in reality.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 17, Page 321
Starr Carter Quotes Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 19
“Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared, Starr,” she says. “It means you go on even though you’re scared. And you’re doing that.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Lisa Carter, Chapter 19, Page 331
Starr Carter Quotes Part 3: Eight Weeks After, Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 20
“This is exactly what They expect you to do,” Momma says.
They with a capital T. There’s Them and then there’s Us. Sometimes They look like Us and don’t recognize They are Us.”~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Lisa Carter and Starr Carter, Chapter 20, Page 343
Starr Carter Quotes Part 4: Ten Weeks After, Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 21
“My two worlds just collided. Surprisingly, everything’s all right.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 21, Page 359
Starr Carter Quotes Part 5: Thirteen Weeks After It – The Decision, Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 23
“People say misery loves company, but I think it’s like that with anger too.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 23, Page 393
Starr Carter Quotes Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 26
“I can’t change where I come from or what I’ve been through, so why should I be ashamed of what makes me, me?”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter; Chapter 26, Page 441
“Once upon a time there was a hazel-eyed boy with dimples. I called him Khalil. The world called him a thug.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter; Chapter 26, Page 443
“It’s also about Oscar.
Aiyana.
Trayvon.
Rekia.
Michael.
Eric.
Tamir.
John.
Ezell.
Sandra.
Freddie.
Alton.
Philando.
It’s even about that little boy in 1955 who nobody recognized at first—Emmett.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter; Chapter 26, Page 443
“Once upon a time there was a hazel-eyed boy with dimples. I called him Khalil. The world called him a thug.
He lived, but not nearly long enough, and for the rest of my life I’ll remember how he died.
Fairy tale? No. But I’m not giving up on a better ending.”~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 26, Page 443
“People are realizing and shouting and marching and demanding. They’re not forgetting. I think that’s the most important part.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 26, Page 444
“Khalil, I’ll never forget.
I’ll never give up.
I’ll never be quiet.
I promise.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter; Chapter 26, Page 444
“To every kid in Georgetown and in all “the Gardens” of the world: your voices matter, your dreams matter, your lives matter. Be roses that grow in the concrete.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter; Last page of the Acknowledgments
“Be roses that grow in the concrete.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Last page of the Acknowledgments
Starr Carter Quotes About Identity
“It’s dope to be black until it’s hard to be black.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 1, Page 11
“Pac said Thug Life stood for ‘The Hate U Give Little Infants F*** Everybody’.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 1, Page 17
“The other talk was about what to do if a cop stopped me.
Momma fussed and told Daddy I was too young for that. He argued that I wasn’t too young to get arrested or shot.
“Starr-Starr, you do whatever they tell you to do,” he said. “Keep your hands visible. Don’t make any sudden moves. Only speak when they speak to you.”
I knew it must’ve been serious. Daddy has the biggest mouth of anybody I know, and if he said to be quiet, I needed to be quiet.
I hope somebody had the talk with Khalil.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 2, Pages 20, 21
“I’ve seen it happen over and over again: a black person gets killed just for being black, and all hell breaks loose. I’ve tweeted RIP hashtags, reblogged pictures on Tumblr, and signed every petition out there. I always said that if I saw it happen to somebody, I would have the loudest voice, making sure the world knew what went down.
Now I am that person, and I’m too afraid to speak.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 3, Page 34
“People like us in situations like this become hashtags, but they rarely get justice. I think we all wait for that one time though, that one time when it ends right.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 5, Page 59
“I hope none of them ask about my spring break. They went to Taipei, the Bahamas, Harry Potter World. I stayed in the hood and saw a cop kill my friend.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 5, Page 77
“He got a tan over break. I used to tell him he was so pale he looked like a marshmallow. He hated that I compared him to food. I told him that’s what he got for calling me caramel. It shut him up.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 5, Page 79
“Exactly. Drugs come from somewhere, and they’re destroying our community,” he says. “You got folks like Brenda, who think they need them survive, and then you got the Khalils, who think they need to sell them to survive. The Brendas can’t get jobs unless they’re clean, and they can’t pay for rehab unless they got jobs. When the Khalils get arrested for selling drugs, they either spend most of their life in prison, another billion-dollar industry, or they have a hard time getting a real job and probably start selling drugs again. That’s the hate they’re giving us, baby, a system designed against us. That’s Thug Life.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter and Maverick “Big Mav” Carter, Chapter 10, Pages 169, 170
“Daddy once told me there’s a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn’t stop the slave masters from hurting their families. Daddy also said there’s nothing more dangerous than when that rage is activated.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 11, Page 196
“My son loved working in the neighborhood,” One-Fifteen’s father claims. “He always wanted to make a difference in the lives there.”
Funny. Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.” Same shit, different century. I wish people like them would stop thinking that people like me need saving.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, One-Fifteens father and Starr Carter, Chapter 14, Page 245
“I’d ask him if he wished he shot me too.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 16, Page 290
“I’ve taught myself to speak with two different voices and only say certain things around certain people. I’ve mastered it.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter, Chapter 17, Page 301
“This is exactly what They expect you to do,” Momma says. They with a capital T. There’s Them and then there’s Us. Sometimes They look like Us and don’t recognize They are Us.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Lisa Carter and Starr Carter, Chapter 20, Page 343
“I can’t change where I come from or what I’ve been through, so why should I be ashamed of what makes me, me?”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter; Chapter 26, Page 441
“Once upon a time there was a hazel-eyed boy with dimples. I called him Khalil. The world called him a thug.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter; Chapter 26, Page 443
“To every kid in Georgetown and in all “the Gardens” of the world: your voices matter, your dreams matter, your lives matter. Be roses that grow in the concrete.”
~Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Starr Carter; Last page of the Acknowledgments