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Ant is a member of the Garden Disciples, the King Lords’ rival gang. He’s a high school student who goes to Maverick’s school and is very short. Because of the way that Ant tells Maverick that Dre should watch his back on the first day of school, Maverick and the other King Lords believe that Ant murdered Dre. When someone then murders Ant in the parking lot at a football game, Shawn decides to drop the issue. However, Maverick eventually realizes that Ant didn’t kill Dre.
Ant Quotes in Concrete Rose
The Concrete Rose quotes below are all either spoken by Ant or refer to Ant. 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 10
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“Weak,” P-Nut says, behind a fake cough. The big homies smirk. I’m nothing but a joke to them.
I storm toward the church. I found Dre with bullets in his head. The least Shawn could do is let me handle the dude who killed him.
But nah. I’m just a li’l kid who can’t live up to his pops’s name.
I’m gon’ prove all them fools wrong one day. Believe that.
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Chapter 13
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“Everybody in the set already think I’m soft, Shawn.”
“So?” he says. “Forget what them fools think. You gotta live for you and Dre now, you feel me? You can do everything he didn’t get a chance to do.”
I never thought of that.
“Raise your son. Be the best father you can be,” Shawn says. “That’s how you honor Dre. A’ight?”
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Chapter 15
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The person who killed my cousin got killed.
It’s been a weird three weeks since it happened. ‘Cause Ant was shot at a school function it was all over the news. His parents cried on TV, and I realized he had parents. Like Dre. Some kids at school were really tore up over his death, and I realized he had friends. Like Dre. At the stadium, he got a memorial in the parking lot with flowers and balloons. Like Dre.
Everybody get mourned by somebody, I guess. Even murderers.
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Ant Quotes in Concrete Rose
The Concrete Rose quotes below are all either spoken by Ant or refer to Ant. 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 10
Quotes
“Weak,” P-Nut says, behind a fake cough. The big homies smirk. I’m nothing but a joke to them.
I storm toward the church. I found Dre with bullets in his head. The least Shawn could do is let me handle the dude who killed him.
But nah. I’m just a li’l kid who can’t live up to his pops’s name.
I’m gon’ prove all them fools wrong one day. Believe that.
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Chapter 13
Quotes
“Everybody in the set already think I’m soft, Shawn.”
“So?” he says. “Forget what them fools think. You gotta live for you and Dre now, you feel me? You can do everything he didn’t get a chance to do.”
I never thought of that.
“Raise your son. Be the best father you can be,” Shawn says. “That’s how you honor Dre. A’ight?”
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Chapter 15
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The person who killed my cousin got killed.
It’s been a weird three weeks since it happened. ‘Cause Ant was shot at a school function it was all over the news. His parents cried on TV, and I realized he had parents. Like Dre. Some kids at school were really tore up over his death, and I realized he had friends. Like Dre. At the stadium, he got a memorial in the parking lot with flowers and balloons. Like Dre.
Everybody get mourned by somebody, I guess. Even murderers.
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