Black


Between the World and Me
The Hate U Give
The Color Purple
Kindred
The Bluest Eye
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Homegoing
The Vanishing Half
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The Fire Next Time
The Underground Railroad
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't want to sweat out this straightness. You're always battling to make your hair do what it wasn't meant to do. ...more
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

Alice Sebold
The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an outdoor cafe for a cup of coffee, and look down at her skirt and see the dark traces of spilled vodka or whiskey. The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: 'booze affects material as it does people'. ...more
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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