Black girl Quote by Angie Thomas

“I just have to be normal Starr at normal Williamson and have a normal day. That means flipping the switch in my brain so…

— Angie Thomas

“I never know which Starr I should be. I can use some slang, but not too much slang, some attitude, but not too much…

— Angie Thomas

When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next…

— Young Jeezy

I went to this arts high school in Greenville, S.C. In speech class, the teacher, a white man, would say, 'You're talking ghetto. Don't…

— Teyonah Parris

“1. Close Friend, someone who got yo back, yo "main nigga." 2. Rooted in blackness and the Black experience. From a middle-aged social worker:…

— H. Sammy Alim and Geneva Smitherman

When I first heard rap, I wasn't quick to be critical. I couldn't understand what they were saying, but I had a feeling it…

— Casey Kasem

'I mean, [Kanye West] is called me a b***h in his songs. That's just, like, what they say. I never once think, [gasping] 'What…

— Kim Kardashian

“Like I said, at Williamson I'm cool by default because I'm black. I can go out there and do a silly dance move I…

— Angie Thomas

“Lash had been explaining to her that it's impolite to refer to an African American as a nigga, unless one was another African American,…

— Christopher Moore

Livin ghetto-fabulous, so mad, you just can't take it but nigga if you hatin I then you wait while I get yo' bitch butt-naked.

— UGK

“Ghettos have their own characteristics and consequences : be they physical. social, intellectual or mental, those who live in them always nurture projection of…

— Tariq Ramadan

“Who originates the latest slang terms that are, seemingly overnight, known to every black youth across the country?”

— Donald Jeffries