Angie Thomas Quotes

The justice system isn't meant to work for people of color in this country.

#BlackLivesMatter brought a new sense of urgency, audacity, and outrage to the issue of police violence against black men that has made it impossible to ignore, to cover up, or to justify.

I understand the outrage because it seems the list continues to grow: Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd. The injustices continue to mount and nothing seems to be changing.

The criminal justice system in the United States is designed to do two things really well: to railroad black and brown bodies into prison, and to keep police officers out of it.

Too many Black lives have been lost to injustice and brutality in this country.

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

We have too many Black men in jail waiting for justice and too many Black women in church waiting for Jesus.

There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.

I feel like I've built big enough platform and still building my platform for us to get justice for Breonna Taylor.

Black Lives Matter was born out of our unwavering love for black people and our undeniable rage over a system that has historically dehumanized black people.

Things like Ferguson and Eric Garner show us there's an unequal distribution of forward momentum in America.

Michael Brown - when he lost his life, there was more focus on what he had done sometimes than what was done to him.

We run into police brutality often and it's always a problem that we always have to protest and speak out.

#BlackLivesMatter has raised the bar in our national dialog: Addressing economic inequality is necessary but not sufficient. It is also necessary to directly confront racial injustice.

The Left doesn't support blue lives.

The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the gospel.

I'm sick of watching 'Blue Lives Matter' supporters idly stand by any police officer simply because he wears blue, ignoring the facts that should make them cringe in disbelief and horror. Police brutality is systemic, not anecdotal.

All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.

The whole reason behind my album 'Free TC' is seeing all that police brutality, injustice, mass incarceration.

Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, Mya Hall, Walter Scott, Sandra Bland - these names are important. They're inherently important, and the space that #BlackLivesMatter held and continues to hold helped propel the conversation around the state-sanctioned violence they experienced.

The police killings of unarmed African Americans has got to stop.

As African-Americans, that's what's being played fast and loose with, our citizenship. When you have the Trayvon Martins and the Michael Browns being shot and killed, it's because, on a certain level, there is a kind of mutability in the understanding of citizenship around the black body.

In the same way that Occupy Wall Street forever elevated that concept of income inequality, the Black Lives Matter protesters have elevated the idea of inequity in policing as it relates to minority communities.

From racial profiling and being pulled over just for 'driving while black' to this new phenomenon of killing unarmed people out of some preconceived idea of fear, our lives and our children's lives are not being valued.