Nine of My Favorite G. Neri Quotes
Quotes, who doesn’t love a good quote? This series of articles we look at Top 9 Famous Quotes by Author G. Neri, author quotes are always a challenge and fun to pick, with G. Neri you will find my Nine favorites of G. Neri’s quotes.
About G. Neri
G. Neri is the Coretta Scott King award-winning author of Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty and the Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award winner for Chess Rumble. It has been translated into multiple languages in over 25 countries. As well as Tru & Nelle, A Christmas Tale, Ghetto Cowboy, Knockout Games, Surf Mules, and two free-verse picture books, When Paul Met Artie and Hello, I’m Johnny Cash, these are among his works. A National Science Foundation grant sent him to Antarctica in 2017.
She was a filmmaker, an animator/illustrator, a digital media producer, and a founding member of The Truth anti-smoking campaign before becoming a writer. He lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida with his wife and daughter, where he writes full-time.
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Popular Quotes
“I can be better, Mama. I won’t skip school no more. I promise.” She looks at me for the first time, her eyes searchin’ mine. It’s like she wanna remember my face. Her mouth is tight, but she takes my hand, shaking her head slowly. I know she wanna say something, but it feels like if she opens her mouth, she just gonna crumble apart like them old auto factories near our apartment. Finally, she starts up the car. I ask one last time. “Can we go home?” She takes a deep breath and exhales slowly. “No. Don’t ask me again.”
― G. Neri, Ghetto Cowboy
“When gangs took over the [abandoned public land in Philadelphia] and the neighborhood took a turn for the worse, horses became a way of saving lives. By getting boys interested in raising a horse rather than killing another human being, these cowboys gave the youth something positive: father figures, focus, and the ability to stand tall.”
― G. Neri, Ghetto Cowboy
“Tru, this is your home. You are my blood kin, my second cousin thrice removed. But blood kin’s not the most important kin. Do you know what is?” “No, sir.” “Love kin. And that comes from the heart. That’s why this is your home.”
― G. Neri, Tru & Nelle
“Don’t steal nobody’s cattle or their women. Treat your horse like your best friend, because sometimes that’s all you got. Most important, trust and believe in your guys and always have their back when they need you.”
― G. Neri, Ghetto Cowboy
“It’s our right to be here. This is our home. So we ain’t leaving and that’s that. The people have spoken, so you and that piece of paper best be on your way, ya hear?”
― G. Neri, Ghetto Cowboy
“They looking at the plates that shows we not from here.”
― G. Neri, Ghetto Cowboy
“she already thought it was too late.”
― G. Neri, Ghetto Cowboy
“Looks like you a cowboy after all.”
― G. Neri, Ghetto Cowboy
“That’s up to your daddy now.”
― G. Neri, Ghetto Cowboy
9 Famous Quotes by Author G. Neri
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