How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
The newspapers would run stories about why people should vote for some black girl from Harlem but then Icy would come out and blow everybody away with her plans to make New York City the best city in the world for everybody (not just white people) and she would be mayor. (14.13)
Reese says that New York City is the best city in the world…but just for white people. What do you think he means?
Quote #8
"I'm going to be a rich white dude," he said. "Then I won't have to do nothing but sit around and worry about people like you coming into my neighborhood." (23.9)
Play jokes that his life plan is turning into a rich white guy. As it turns out, he loses his case and is transferred to another facility, though. Not that becoming a rich white guy was ever going to be possible…
Quote #9
"I know there's a curtain that divides your world from mine."
"Because you're black, you mean?"
"You sure jumped on that in a heartbeat," Kat said. (26.33-26.35)
Kat is right to criticize Miss Rossetti for assuming that Reese was talking about race. He wasn't—he was talking about freedom, or the lack thereof. Boom.