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“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“I start pulling my guts out
those red silk cords,
spiraling skyward,
and I'm climbing them
past the moon and the sun,
past darkness
into white.
I mean to live.”
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those red silk cords,
spiraling skyward,
and I'm climbing them
past the moon and the sun,
past darkness
into white.
I mean to live.”
―
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”
―
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Black Female Romance Leads
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This group is for people to post and talk about Black women or African American women in romance books in any genre. I know that I love to read roman ...more
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