"Sure you can do anything when you talking or writing, it's not like living when you can only do what you doing." Chap. 1, p. 3

"I'm gonna break through or somebody gonna break through to me - I'm gonna learn, catch up, be normal, change my seat to the front of the class." Chap. 1, p. 7

"It's something about being a nigger ain't color." Chap. 1, p. 11

"A lot of black people with nurse cap or big car or light skin same as me but don't know it." Chap. 1, p. 11

"I hate crack addicts. They give the race a bad name." Chap 1, p. 14

"The tesses paint a picture of me an' my muver — my whole family, we more than dumb, we invisible." Chap. 1, p. 30

"I know who they say I am — vampire sucking the system's blood. Ugly black grease to be wipe away, punish, kilt, changed, finded a job...