Bee Reads

“I love to go the library to borrow books. But I also enjoyed buying books to create my sacred library.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
― Louis Adamic

“Every travesty that had ever been committed had been committed by plain people.”
― Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets

“but these leaders traffic in respectability politics—the idea that if black (or other marginalized) people simply behave in “culturally approved” ways, if we mimic the dominant culture, it will be more difficult to suffer the effects of racism.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist