Kekla Magoon Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Kekla Magoon
I'm really good with problems. I can solve a differential equation in my head. I chew through trig angles like candy. I know this, and it just makes it worse. Because I don't know how to solve this one. — Kekla Magoon
As a black man, you have to keep your head down. You have to keep yourself steady. You have to follow every rule that's ever been written, plus a few that have always remained unspoken. — Kekla Magoon
Legislature Votes Down Gun Reform Bill
The timing is strange on that one. They had it in committee for months. All the pressure around Tariq brought it forward this week. If they were going to vote it down, why did they even bother? It's like they went out of the way to say, 'No, what happened here is fine. — Kekla Magoon
My shoes dangle from my fingertips because, all things considered, barefoot is better. — Kekla Magoon
It seemed like a backward step at first, but now I know going back was the only way to show how far I've come. — Kekla Magoon
I was leaning over him when he died. My hands on his chest. My palms felt his last breath move inside him. His chest rose and fell and then kept falling, like it could carry us both straight down through the earth.
I didn't stop pushing, but I knew. Right then. I was breathing hard myself. My lungs probably took int he last air Tariq ever exhaled. It can't possibly be in me anymore, but it feels like it is. Like it's weighing heavy on my chest with every breath I take, even now. — Kekla Magoon
I have to make peace, somehow, with my place in all of this. Peach Street is still my home; I can't keep thinking of it as a war zone, or a protest platform, or a deathbed. Put one foot in front of the other, go to work. Read the news, sprinkle liberally with salt. Ring up. Make change. Smile. Chitchat. — Kekla Magoon
The river moves, but it follows a path. When it tires of one journey, it rubs through some rock to forge a new way. Hard work, but that's its nature. — Kekla Magoon
My moves are smooth. Always have been. I'm smart enough to see what's coming, and clever enough to turn it my way. All my skills make me perfect for this. The street dance. The hustle. — Kekla Magoon
The river is motion, turmoil, rage. As the river flows, it wonders what it would be like to be so still, to take a breath, to rest. But the rock will always wonder what lies around the bend in the stream. — Kekla Magoon
Anyone who can see will see you beautiful. — Kekla Magoon
They spin away, always away. Too fast to understand, sometimes. They rush on, but we remain. They will come back, and we will still be here, as they expect us to be. We are the guardians.
In between each small flurry, we rest. We breathe. Redeema raises her face to the sky. "My children," she murmurs, and the sound of it aches. — Kekla Magoon
You're only responsible for your own actions. You can't control how someone else reacts to what you do. You made a choice. Stand by it. — Kekla Magoon
I wish she would just look at me, look at my face and stop talking long enough to see me. To see that things are not right. That none of this is real and I am in some other place. — Kekla Magoon
I glance through the rear window at the house. It amazes me slightly that it looks the same as it did, though it's been gutted of so many valuable things. You wouldn't know, to walk past that house, what it had lost. It looks as proud, and as firm, and as fancy as ever. As whole. — Kekla Magoon
In the white newspapers, they use it against us. They make the Panthers look like we all just want to rip the throats out of some white folks for no good reason. We have good reasons, but we still don't want to do that. — Kekla Magoon
People make mistakes. They look at the surface of things and see what they want to. — Kekla Magoon
It's not that you said it. I care that you even though it. — Kekla Magoon