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Michelle’s older brother. Craig and Michelle are very close growing up, and he often breaks ground for her in school because he is a very good student, as well. Craig is also a great basketball player and is recruited to Princeton, which is what inspires Michelle to attend Princeton, too. Like many of Michelle’s other relatives, Craig has experienced discrimination from an early age: when he got a new bike, a policeman stopped him, disbelieving that he could have acquired the bike in “an honest way.”
Craig Quotes in Becoming
The Becoming quotes below are all either spoken by Craig or refer to Craig. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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He’d been promptly picked up by a police officer who accused him of stealing it, unwilling to accept that a young black boy would have come across a new bike in an honest way. (The officer, an African American man himself, ultimately got a brutal tongue-lashing from my mother, who made him apologize to Craig.) What had happened, my parents told us, was unjust but also unfortunately common. The color of our skin made us vulnerable. It was a thing we’d always have to navigate.
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Craig Quotes in Becoming
The Becoming quotes below are all either spoken by Craig or refer to Craig. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 2
Quotes
He’d been promptly picked up by a police officer who accused him of stealing it, unwilling to accept that a young black boy would have come across a new bike in an honest way. (The officer, an African American man himself, ultimately got a brutal tongue-lashing from my mother, who made him apologize to Craig.) What had happened, my parents told us, was unjust but also unfortunately common. The color of our skin made us vulnerable. It was a thing we’d always have to navigate.
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