all the black parents in america give there children life talk

Starr’s parents, in terms of being protective. Her mom wants to shield her from tough issues, while her dad wants to confront issues head-on.

starr is saying that her parents told her 2 things when she turned 12 and the 2 things was that birds and bees talk and then what she should do if a cop stops her.

the character using this word THUGLIFE to say F everybody

the author uses tupac as a example to show the garden heights has affected its youth and depict how khalil feels about society.

what he is trying to say is that he dont care about nobody

khalil say that tupac was the truth and i can relate because tupac was one of my favorite rapper growing up .because tupac music relate too real stuff like for a example this song name dear mama is a...

she thinks that she control everything she thinks that she was born a queen.

so khalil getting his hairbrush out at the compartment on the door and some of the guys that was in the party came to ask them if they see somebody with a gun at the party because they looking...

she ask the people in the car who you think got shot

in my opinion why they When to the party that got shot up she was smart enough to get out unlike Kenya.

starr is probably thinking that kenya is a little crazy because she trying to fight after gunshots were fired and everybody running and she the only one that trying to fight.

pop wants everybody out at once because the crowd stampedes toward the door

starr is scared because there are gunshots going off

: Now when you go to a party something bad will always happen before you go to the parties and nothing bad happened but now a lot of bad things happen at parties like people getting arrested people get...

he is trying to buy new jordans so he can look fresh

this means that her friends trying to make fun of drake by trying to sing like drake and making jokes

what they saying is that they did not have nothing and now they making money

what he trying to say is that everybody in the family is going to be good

Khalil tries to keep the mood light when talking about his grandma’s cancer, saying it’s going to be okay, but his weak laugh shows he is very worried about his grandma he dont want his grandma to died./ i...

khalil feels bad for his grandma because his grandma is sick she got something but it probably it something else that is not cancer

I think people warry about khalil grandma’s because when she go outside people be seen thgat she getting better that she don’t look that sick no more but i think khalil is mad at the people the put his...

why he trying to show off his new jordans and the crisp white tee and the diamonds in his ears.

: She doesn't respond to her boyfriend but is remembering when she had her first kiss with Khalil when they were in Bible school and she say that she might not be answering chris calls or texts.

I know what she means about that is really hard to be black in this country. I've seen police brutality on the news -- the George Floyd killing for example.

she feels like she dont wants to be there she wants to be a different person went she at the williamson and when she in garden heights

Starr suddenly realizes that she is still in a place where she doesn't know anyone. This shows how uncomfortable she feels she wants to go home because she dont know nobody in there.