That's the hate they're giving us, baby, a system designed against us. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. It also speaks to the fact that once violence is set in motion, it is often impossible to control. When the Khalils get arrested for selling drugs, they either spend most of their life in prison, another billion-dollar industry, or they have a hard time getting a real job and probably start selling drugs again. When the Khalils get arrested for selling drugs, they either spend most of their life in prison, another billion-dollar industry, or they have a hard time getting a real job and probably start selling drugs again. Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. Although Starr says this in reference to Kenya, it can be seen as a foreshadowing of Khalils fate. The Brendas can't get jobs unless they're clean, and they can't pay for rehab unless they got jobs. "You got folks like Brenda, who think they need them survive, and then you got the Khalils, who think they need to sell them to survive. Drugs come from somewhere, and they're destroying our community," he says. That shit is flown into our communities, but I don't know anybody with a private jet. "How did the drugs even get in our neighborhood? This is a multibillion-dollar industry we talking 'bout, baby. To throw away all your chances to be happy because you didn’t succeed on the first attempt. To condemn all your friends because one betrayed you, not to believe in love because someone was unfaithful or didn’t love you back.
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It's easier to find some crack that it is the find a good school around here. To lose faith in prayers because one was not answered, to give up on our efforts because one of them failed. Our schools don't get the resources to equip you like Williamson does. That's why when your momma talked about sending you and your brothers to Williamson, I agreed. Then, shit, even if you do have a high school diploma, so many of the schools in our neighborhoods don't prepare us well enough. The phrase and its meaning are discussed a few times in the novel. Tupac said the words were an acronym for The Hate U Give Little Infants f-words Everybody. "Corporate America don't bring jobs to our communities, and they damn sure ain't quick to hire us. The title of the novel is a reference to one of rapper Tupac Shakur’s tattoos, which spelled out THUG LIFE in capital letters.
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