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Plum Bun

by Jessie Redmon Fauset

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Oreo

by Fran Ross

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The Bog Wife

by Kay Chronister (Goodreads Author)

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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib

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Once you understand violence, once its presence is constant enough, it can become something you survive until survival becomes normalcy, and fear becomes something you lie about when your friends are listening.

Homie

by Danez Smith

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Stay Up with Hugo Best

by Erin Somers

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Lauren’s Quotes

“To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly Tat-taa! Takatun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love mister, without a sigh?”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

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“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

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“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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“Nobody can judge an internal injury by the size of the superficial wound.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

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“You and me are real people, operating in a real world. We are not figments of each other’s imagination. I am the architect of my own self, my own character and destiny. It is no use whingeing about what I might have been, I am the things I have done and nothing more. We are all free, completely free. We can each do any damn thing we want. Which is more than most of us dare to imagine.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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