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"Looking back, im embarassed. For me. For my parents."

I selected this quote because she takes use of paues in senetnces to add emphasis to her righting to exhuberate on a claim

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"I dont consume food prettily while alone"

i chose this quote because i see that she is honest in her aproach to what she needs to tal bout in conserns to her personal life. The quote is about how she does make herself look nice by starving herself.

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"I never would have imagined that a year later she'd be accompanying me to a Dance of Doom."

I selected this quote because it catches the reader attention by making them quetsion what exactly is a "Dance of Doom" maing then the reader continue to read. It connectes with the character of Issa Ray because it is a comidic way of reflecting her own sense of imagination of lifes events and curveballs.

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"i couldnt find my breath"

I chose this quote because it shows what emotions she is going through in this portion of the exerpt. It shows the results of her awardness as the title exclaims.

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"While my feelings for him where strong this fact was hovering over my heart and my head"

This quote is signifigant because it shows a breif preview of how she handles her emotions and what she feels when it comes showing her wimsicle personallity. I say this because of her likening her feeligs to the fact hovering over her heart and head.

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"Black women, your reputation sucks

This quote reveals the blatant part of her personality and how she is "awquard". This quote also sparks a comidic contraversal sense to it for the reader to ponder on.

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I wanted to sink my head into my soft square shaped shell of a body and disappear.

I chose this quote because it shows a relatable assurance for those who are also in the younger generation. It also shows a portion of her personality as closed off but at the same time imaginative that is in this period of her life.

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Thirty minutes felt like hours"

This quote i chose because it reveals the charatcers sense of time in certain occurences. This also may reveal the charatcer issa ray is impatient.

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-What is Issa Rays view on asian men?

-What setting was Issa ray in when she had her name mispronounced?

-In middle school what did she call herself online?

-At what age group did she move to New York?

-What was Issa ray insecure about in elementary school?

-What ethnicity was her dad?

-What color hair did her dad jokingly say he wants a wife to have?

-Where was Issa ray looking to go to get a boyfriend?

-What was her original name?

-Who was Issa rays favorite rapper?

-What where three of the classifications of black people?

-What was one of the passions Issa ray pursued?

-Was Issa ray allowed to publicly display affection?

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"Growing up the words i love you where a special gift"

I chose this quote because it in a way summarizes the entirity of the whole chapter "public displys of effection". And it shows how she was given love from a young age.

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"Ididnt always have a grievance with my hair" pg 67

This senetce chose because it shows the begining of her rants and stories in middle school considerning her journey to finlly being comfterble with her natrual hair rather then conforming to the public view of what was popular for black girls.

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"I met Monique my first day of high school" pg 65

I chose this quote because it introduces a new character in this part of the text and it is used to show Issa's embarassmant on her first day of school and more examples of her awqwardness.

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"Where samson had strength in his dreadlocks, i shed them off to find mine"

I chose this quote because i like the story of samson and it shows a part of her charatcer in where she finds her strength which she reveals is in how she physicaally aappears to others.

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"I nodded furious but relieved"

I chose this quote because it generated a image in my mind of how her facial expression might have looked when she was talking to someone.

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"A sound espaped my throat tht didnt recnize as i bent into my lap and covered my face.:"

I chose this quote because it shows her personality in a measure of what is written in the title. It shows the award dimension of her personaitlty .

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"I opted for the truth"

I chose this quote because it is showing a aspect of her desiscion making qualities. It also shows that she in some ways is honest depending on if it seemed risky or not.

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"Ecxept i never finished the script"

I chose this quote because i shows the part of her ersonailty or character where part of her awqardness is the struggle of finishing what she starts.

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"I watched him walk to my window"

I chose this quote because it is showing her times with her old boyfriend and she records herself watching him walk to the window it shows an aspect of her personality that she is very observant.

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"My mother was partially invested in my lack of fashion sense emotionally so.

I chose this quote because it shows the reality of her situation and a snippet of how her homelife was.

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"My fellow aqwards once you step foot out of your own home except to be seen"

I chose this quote because I see it as a proof that she is seen as the title states as one whom is awquaed and it also gives a clue to whom the book is written to.

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"Looks, brains, moves."

I chose this quote because it is short and it shows a simple desicrtion of an individual to convey a certain mood.