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21FA-LS-5653 - African-American Literature: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

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  "Sometimes you can do everything right, and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right."

21FA-LS-5653 - African-American Literature: Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson

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“When you love a thing, little man, my dad said, you gotta love it with everything you got. Till you can’t even tell where that thing you love begins and where you end.”

21FA-LS-5653 - African-American Literature: Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

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"Segregationists are haters. Like, real haters. People who hate you for not being like them. Assimilationists are people who like you, but only with quotation marks. Like… "like" you. Meaning, they "like" you because you're like them. And then there are antiracists. They love you because you're like you."

21FA-LS-5653 - International Literature: The Murderer's Ape by Jakob Wegelius

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  "Farewell, you cruel maiden, Farewell, goodbye, I say, For I'm weary now of waiting, So I'm off to sea again. "

21FA-LS-5653 - International Literature: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

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  “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”

21FA-LS-5653 - International Literature: Birdsong by Julie Flett

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  "When we're done, Agnes says it's like a poem for her heart."