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Bayan Ala'abed
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Like indigenous peoples around the world, black South Africans adopted the religion of our colonizers. By “adopt” I mean it was forced on us. The white man was quite stern with the native. “You need to pray to Jesus,” he said. “Jesus will
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“Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.”
― Bad Feminist
― Bad Feminist
“Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.”
― Where She Went
― Where She Went
“But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.”
― Where She Went
― Where She Went
“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― An Abundance of Katherines
― An Abundance of Katherines
“Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.”
― If I Stay
― If I Stay
Bayan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Bayan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Biography, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Psychology, Religion, and Thriller
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