Carrie Mattox

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Carrie Mattox is currently reading

This Book Made Me Think of You

by Libby Page (Goodreads Author)

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This One Wild and Precious Life: A Hopeful Path Forward in a Fractured World

by Sarah Wilson (Goodreads Author)

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Nov 22, 2025 06:06PM

“There is an old Southern expression: “I don’t got a dog in that fight.” But I immediately realized that was never going to be the case when it comes to standing up to racial injustice. We all “got a dog in that fight.”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

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“Why is it that we love to drag all that baggage from childhood with us? We heave it dutifully. We haul it everywhere we go. And we pull it out at the drop of a hat for all to see. Nope, we are not going to let go of all that baggage.”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

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“I think that fear keeps so many of us from being successful at things outside our realm of experience. We love to stay in our comfort zone, but the growth only comes when we wander outside of that zone.”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

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“Our parents did the best they could with the light they had to see with.”
― Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

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“Her death hit in waves. Not a flood, but water lapping steadily at her ankles. You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

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