Noticing Sentences

 More information has been gathered about you, me, the world, and the universe in the last ten years than the previous 10,000 years. p59

 I think it would be a terrible sacrifice to do nothing. p258

Description Dell Duke is not a bad person. He is just bad at being  a person. p289

 LOL Those two are hiding their sex tea from me. p122 Description/ Emotion Wryly noting that glaciers break off and icebergs dissolve, but my jealousy never seems to change form. p549 Love is hope for other people. p591

 "The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life." Jane Addams in a 1892 speech p29 Grace Hopper was on The Late Show with David Letterman!  Can I find this episode? Gertrude [Berg] said, "these surface differences serve to emphasize how much alike most people are underneath." p141

 I've often wondered about that, about how kids can turn into monsters, how they learn that killing is right and oppression is just, how in one single generation the world can change on its axis into a place that's unrecognizable. p102

 "Who gives a shit about this 'value add' stuff? Don't you know that negative numbers have value, too? Algebra stretches in both directions. So does life." p165

 It's always better to know. You should always know the thing that happened. If you don't know, then you can't understand what justice is. p105

Honoring the Past "It'll be our job to remember the parts we got wrong and make it better for our children and grandchildren. Embrace our differences, and still find a way to make peace."  p110 "Never be ashamed of where you come from, or the stories your ancestors bring to you. Make them your own."  p122 What the Collective doesn't understand is by honoring the past, our ancestors, our cultures-- and remembering our mistakes-- we become better. p258

Self-Confidence I am able to forget how I'm supposed to feel about  my body and instead I enjoy what my body actually  feels. p279 "...You look at me and you see me struggle through things and you root for me regardless, thinking I'm, like, killing it out there in the world, but when it's you, you don't cut yourself any slack and you beat yourself up. But I'm a regular person and so are you," she says. p314

Family Maybe you can't pick who you get in the beginning, but you can sure  pick who you end up with. p200

Lincoln Award Book, 2021 Way too relatable for my students ... I try not to stare at the scarf wound around her head. It's not that I've never seen this before. I've just never seen it live, in person. Especially here in Brookdale, the place crowned three years ago as the "Whitest Town in Maryland." p32 Privilege A human being would apologize. Would at least put the rifle away. but Mr. Danforth lacks the basic human firmware required for apologies. He rooted out those files and deleted them years ago. Being rich means never having to say you're sorry. p68-69 Emphasis mine. Discussion "Well, here's what I've noticed over the years: People-- men, especially-- are quiet for one of four reasons." She hands me the newly full glass and proceeds to tick them on her fingers: "They're hiding something. They're afraid of something. They have nothing to say. They have too much to say. Which is it for you?" p97 "Suck ...

Quotes But as Zora Neale Hurston famously warned, "If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it." p2 Poems I Saved Self/ Care p16-17 Panther p18-19 We Shall Overcome p22 Mermaids p26-27 Tsunami p28-29 We Are Wise p33 We Can't Breathe p34 "On Being Brought from Africa to America" by Phillis Wheatley p49 Blessing p72 Lines I Loved "Boy," she demanded, "who taught you to hate your source?" p35

Quotes You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. - John Ciardi Parents Protecting parents' feelings can be a full-time job. p59 Representation "Phoebe, you know all those novels about divorce? They're mostly for the kids who are just starting it. There should one about a kid who's lived with it for a long time. Then you'd see that we all survive it." p72-73 Nope He talks about Kilmer school spirit and how we should stand behind the school, no matter what. p118

Bluestem Book 2021 Shade  I just feel like there is a lot of shade in this book. It's could easily be a lot of different leaders, but the timing.... the whole episode of p 110-111 "But cowards seldom fight their own battles." p227 (Reading this on June 2, 2020 really hit.) "A king must be strong." p255 (The king himself says this.) What it means to be a hero "I'm not a hero," I say. "I didn't even know what I was DOING half of the time." p278-279

Lincoln 2021 Books U.S. versus other countries South Korea- p65 It's awkwardly formal compared to back home, where we usually all eat at different times, typically while in front of the TV or a book or our phones. Loneliness and noise. The American way. p92 Marcos is widely regarded by the world as a brutal dictator, continuing to stay in power after the end of his presidential term by declaring martial law. p147 It strikes me that I cannot claim this country's serene coves and sun-soaked beaches without also claiming its poverty, its problems, its history. To say that any aspect of it is part of me is to say that all of it is part of me. p227 Discussion I met one old woman who had been doing this every week for the last forty-eight years. even if God does not exist, this woman has been doing good in His name so maybe it does not really matter. p88 She hesitates, then adds, "Maybe you haven't developed a passion yet because you've spent your entire ...

Parents/ Parenting "You start them strong and they don't go wrong," he always says. p4 Community funeral and Curtis' speech p11 Love It "... I guess one day one of the Wright brothers walked up to somebody and asked it they had ever heard of an airplane. Just because it's new don't mean it's wrong girl." p190

Umm... hmm...no. When we learn to turn life's little "wrongs" into "rights," as Kae's story proves, Great Girls reach new heights. p29  (The "little wrongs" being discrimination and prejudice...) Her parents and siblings in California were uprooted and forced to move to a relocation camp in Arkansas because they were Japanese. p40  (Emphasis mine...)

Amazingly Said 2nd paragraph p 38 (Mike Jung) "Write what you know to be true." Write your lived experience into existence. Write your truth. p5 (Shaun David Hutchinson) The happiness someone wears and puts out into the universe should never be trusted to be the same amount of joy one has within. p181 (Adam Silvera) I really hope anyone reading this understands that if your "stupid" reason is eating you alive, then it's far from stupid. p183 (Adam Silvera) I write sad stories for teenagers because young adults need to see that there is no such thing as a happy ending when you're that age. Because life is more than your teenage years. p185 (Adam Silvera) Discussion 1st full paragraph on p 167 (Meredith Russo) Have you found your people yet? You absolutely must: they are going to make your life so much more enjoyable. p205 (s.e. smith) When so many people dislike you because of something you can't control, it turns out that you become an...

On Sportsmanship "You pitched a great game, you really did. I'm proud of you. Unfortunately, your team is shitty... No you can't go getting mad at people because they're shitty. Life will get mad at them, don't worry." p13 Oh Sharing "I'm sorry, but if your brother doesn't want you to play with his shit, then you can't play with it. It's his shit. If he wants to be an asshole and not share, then that's his right. You always have the right to be an asshole-- you just shouldn't use that right very often." p33