From my anger, frustration, and hurt, I wrote the short story that would later become 'The Hate U Give.'

empathy is more powerful than sympathy

He got a tan over break. I used to tell him he was so pale he looked like a marshmallow. He hated that I compared him to food. I told him that's what he got for calling me caramel. It shut him up.

At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.

If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar..

For the first time in my life I realized what a horrible, miserable, salvationless hell it is to be without money.

Disciplining a child is easier than disciplining a grown person, and forgiving a child’s insolence is easier than forgiving a grown person's impudence.

A street full of shadows will teach you what life is much better than the street full of lights!

The happiness of society is the end of government.

No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save.

In some tiny, tiny way I am part of history, but I am also able to help people.

Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above. unmeasured by the flight of years; and all that life is love.

Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists

Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.