Prince Jones is a classmate of Ta-Nehisi and Kenyatta at Howard. The son of Dr. Mabel Jones, he attends private schools as a boy and excels at his studies. At Howard, he is known as a warm, generous, and beloved person; he is also a born-again Christian. At 25, he is killed by an officer from the Prince George’s County police, leaving behind a fiancée and baby daughter.
Prince Jones Quotes in Between the World and Me
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I have always felt great distance from the grieving rituals of my people, and I must have felt it powerfully then. The need to forgive the officer would not have moved me, because even then, in some inchoate form, I knew that Prince was not killed by a single officer so much as he was murdered by his country and all the fears that have marked it from birth.
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Prince Jones Quotes in Between the World and Me
The Between the World and Me quotes below are all either spoken by Prince Jones or refer to Prince Jones. 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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I have always felt great distance from the grieving rituals of my people, and I must have felt it powerfully then. The need to forgive the officer would not have moved me, because even then, in some inchoate form, I knew that Prince was not killed by a single officer so much as he was murdered by his country and all the fears that have marked it from birth.
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