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Hafizah Geter

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Hafizah Geter is a Nigerian-American writer born in Zaria, Nigeria. She is the author of the debut poetry collection UN-AMERICAN from Wesleyan University Press, nominated for a 2021 NAACP Image award, a finalist for the 2021 PEN Open Book Award, and longlisted for the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. Hafizah's full-length nonfiction debut, THE BLACK PERIOD: ON PERSONHOOD, RACE & ORIGIN, is forthcoming from Random House, September 2022. ...more

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	Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement by Shelly Oria (Editor), Rebecca Schiff (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Samantha Hunt (Contributor) 4.36 avg rating — 298 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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“I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

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“We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

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“A story untold could be the one that kills you.”
― Pat Conroy

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“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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