Keisha is Dre’s fiancé and Adreanna’s mother. She and Dre have been together for years, but they plan to get married the summer after the novel begins. Keisha is a college student at Markham and while she’s in school, she and Adreanna live near campus while Dre lives in Garden Heights. She’s distraught when Dre is murdered, but she’s able to give Maverick an important clue as he tries to figure out who killed Dre: Dre’s killer had a raspy voice, like Red.
Keisha Quotes in Concrete Rose
The Concrete Rose quotes below are all either spoken by Keisha or refer to Keisha. 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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Pops told me the other day that grief something we all gotta carry. I never understood that till now. Feel like I got a boulder on my back. It weigh down my whole body, and I be wanting to cry out to make the pain go away.
Men ain’t supposed to cry. We supposed to be strong enough to carry our boulders and everybody else’s.
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Keisha Quotes in Concrete Rose
The Concrete Rose quotes below are all either spoken by Keisha or refer to Keisha. 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
Pops told me the other day that grief something we all gotta carry. I never understood that till now. Feel like I got a boulder on my back. It weigh down my whole body, and I be wanting to cry out to make the pain go away.
Men ain’t supposed to cry. We supposed to be strong enough to carry our boulders and everybody else’s.
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