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Hailey Grant
Maya is a close friend of Starr’s at Williamson. She is on the basketball team with Starr and Hailey, and initially tries to keep the peace between the three. An Asian American, Maya later tells Starr that Hailey has made racist comments to her too about eating cat at Thanksgiving. The two form a “minority alliance” to call out Hailey’s prejudice.
Maya Yang Quotes in The Hate U Give
The The Hate U Give quotes below are all either spoken by Maya Yang or refer to Maya Yang. 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 7 Quotes
The drug dealer. That's how they see him. It doesn't matter that he's suspected of doing it. “Drug dealer” is louder than “suspected” ever will be.
If it's revealed that I was in the car, what will that make me? The thug ghetto girl with the drug dealer? What will my teachers think about me? My friends? The whole fucking world, possibly?
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After the fried chicken incident, Hailey and Maya ask Starr if she is acting strangely because she knew Khalil, whose name they have heard on the news. They ask if this is the same Khalil who used to go to Starr’s birthday parties. Hailey dismissively refers to him as “the drug dealer,” confirming Starr’s fears that, for many people, this part of Khalil’s life will overshadow everything else about him. The fact that Hailey is so quick to view Khalil in a way that conforms to stereotypical narratives about black people further evidences her prejudice. Starr worries that the rest Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accu
Chapter 14 Quotes
That's the problem. We let people say stuff, and they say it so much that it becomes okay to them and normal for us. What’s the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?
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After Starr confronts Hailey for her racist comments at Maya’s house, Hailey refuses to apologize and storms out. Maya, who is Asian-American, then confesses to Starr that, in their freshman year, Hailey asked if her family ate cat for Thanksgiving. The comment hurt Maya deeply, but neither she nor Starr said anything to Hailey at the time; in fact, when Hailey started to laugh they both joined in. Starr is appalled at her younger self. She wonders if she felt she had to laugh in that moment, putting aside her—and Maya’s—discomfort to be accepted. Starr has since learned that avoiding Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. V
Chapter 21 Quotes
Chris and Maya walk through the gate, and my stomach gets all jittery. I should be used to my two worlds colliding, but I never know which Starr I should be. I can use some slang, but not too much slang, some attitude, but not too much attitude, so I'm not a “sassy black girl.” I have to watch what I say and how I say it, but I can't sound “white.”
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Starr feels her worlds colliding when Carlos hosts a Memorial Day barbeque and her Williamson friends meet her family and friends from Garden Heights. Starr has spent much of the novel code switching between these two groups, changing how she presents herself to better fit in with her surroundings. Though she has worked to keep “Williamson Starr” and “Garden Heights Starr” separate, in this moment she feels she has been placed in the impossible position of inhabiting both identities at once: she must not scare off Chris and Maya without entirely rejecting her roots. Much to her relief, however, everyone Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita del
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Maya Yang Character Timeline in The Hate U Give
The timeline below shows where the character Maya Yang appears in The Hate U Give. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 3
...whom she has been ignoring. She wonders if she should call her other Williamson friends Maya and Hailey. Then she recalls inviting them to a sleepover years earlier, that Hailey’s parents...
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Chapter 5
Starr greets her friend Maya, an Asian American student at Williamson whose boyfriend, Ryan, is the only other black student...
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Chapter 7
...in the cafeteria, much to Starr’s delight. In gym class, Starr sits between Hailey and Maya and scoffs at a girls vs. boys basketball game in which the girls mostly flirt...
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Hailey drags Starr and Maya onto the basketball court to play. Starr doesn’t really want to join in the game,...
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Hailey and Maya ask if the Khalil they heard about on the news was the same Khalil who...
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Chapter 14
Needing to clear her head, Starr leaves and walks to Maya’s house nearby. Maya is excited to see Starr, but Hailey, who is also there, remains...
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Maya flicks through channels and lands on the television interview with One-Fifteen’s father. Pictures of a...
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After Hailey has gone, Maya says that Hailey was lying: she did unfollow Starr’s Tumblr because she was tired of...
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Maya tells Starr that after Thanksgiving their freshman year, Hailey asked Maya, who is Chinese, whether...
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Chapter 17
Maya finds Starr and says that she asked Hailey about the “cat” comment, but Hailey refused...
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Chapter 20
Starr sees Maya and Hailey talking outside Hailey’s locker. Hailey has a smug expression on her face and...
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...liar for pretending not to know Khalil, and demands an apology for being called racist. Maya defends Starr by pointing out that Hailey has, in fact, been saying racist things—including her...
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Chapter 21
When Maya and Chris arrive, Starr feels her Garden Heights and Williamson worlds colliding, and worries about...
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