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But even if they had seen her, Nella sensed that neither would have said anything differently. Her colleagues, strangely, had made it clear very early on that they didn’t really see her as a young Black woman, but as a young woman who just
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“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: Yourself.”
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Shine & Shadow
— 781 members
— last activity 11 minutes ago
Welcome to Shine & Shadow. We are a group focused on monthly group reads and discussions. We have 3 group reads per month: 1 'Dark' read, 1 'Light' re ...more
Silent Book Club-Zooming Around the World
— 133 members
— last activity 19 hours, 28 min ago
This Silent Book Club is where members from all over the world come and bring whatever book they are reading and we read silently for an hour, after t ...more
Virtual Silent Book Group - Literary Fiction by People of Color
— 96 members
— last activity Mar 04, 2023 09:37AM
A Silent Book Club is where members from all over the world come and bring whatever book they are reading and we read silently for an hour, after the ...more
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