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Jendella Benson
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Hope and Glory
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2022
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Slay in Your Lane Presents: Loud Black Girls
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2020
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All That We've Got
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The Book of Birmingham: A City in Short Fiction
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2018
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Legacy: A Short Story
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2014
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Deaths, Dreams and the Dull Inbetweens
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2013
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Young Motherhood: The Triumphs, the Challenges, the Truth
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Kindling
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Might sound harsh, but you either are a writer or you're not. There is no such thing as an 'aspiring' writer unless you're talking about toddlers learning how to hold pencils and write their names. Everyone else: if you write, you're a writer. No one
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It's actually a story idea that I've had for a while, way before I wrote Hope & Glory. It was inspired by long conversations with a friend about our experiences as Black teenage girls and the academic research she was doing on teenage girls. It was g
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“The thing about regret is that it assumes that there could have been a better way for things to turn out. We have to rid ourselves of the delusion that things could have been any different.”
― Hope and Glory
― Hope and Glory
“Seeing your parents for who they really are instead of who we want them to be is one of the shit parts of growing up. But that don't mean everything good we thought about them don't exist either.”
― Hope and Glory
― Hope and Glory
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“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”
― The Devil and Miss Prym
― The Devil and Miss Prym
“And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.”
― The Sweet Far Thing
― The Sweet Far Thing
“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Alice in Wonderland
― Alice in Wonderland
“She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
