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Saleem Little

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in Harrisburg, PA, The United States

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https://lexingtonpress.wixsite.com/saleemlittle...

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Genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Urban

Influences

Mario Puzo, Donald Goines, Paulo Coehlo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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November 2011

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Writer, Poet, Publisher - Saleem Little is the author of over ten novels and Co-Founder and Owner of Mitanni Publishing (A subsidiary of Lexington Press). Some of his interest include: writing, reading, traveling, painting and spending time family.

In 2006 I lost a friend named Kareem Williams. He was murdered at the age of 24. At that point, I knew no other way to express myself than through writing. I began to write about our lives up until the point of his death and what had led us to that point.

The path to self-discovery starts with this sort of introspection and in this introspective state I discovered within the self a love for writing. After completing "Get In, Get Out" a story loosely based around the lives of those closest to me, I ...more

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	Crying For Tears: The Sasha Pierce Story really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2011 — 5 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
	Get In, Get Out 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011 — 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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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: lies, lying, trust

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“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: 1997, annie-clark-tanner-lecture

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“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

tags: friendship, love, self-discovery, trust, truth

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