Warriors Don T Cry Melba Quotes

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Makaela Kicklighter Warriors Don?t Cry ?Gods warriors don?t cry?. Grandma India says this to Melba Patillo Beals when she is crying because she is scared. This quote sticks with Melba throughout her whole journey at Central High School. This makes Melba be strong and courageous, even when she is nervous or uneasy. In the book Warriors Don?t Cry Melba is a strong young women. She fights for integration at Central, where she attended, throughout the whole book. She says ?The task that remains is to cope with our interdependence ? to see ourselves reflected in every other human being and to respect and honor our differences? (pg. 189). She is saying that no matter what happens to her she just has to make peace with it

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