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Funny. Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.” Same shit, different century. I wish people like them would stop thinking that people like me need saving.
“How do you explain it when you find in someone what you’ve been waiting for your whole life? Do you call it fate? It feels lazy to call it fate. It’s more like finding your way home—where home is a place you secretly hoped for, a place you imagined, but where you’d never before been. Home. When you weren’t sure you’d ever get to have one.”
― The Last Thing He Told Me
― The Last Thing He Told Me
“That’s the problem. We let people say stuff, and they say it so much that it becomes okay to them and normal for us. What’s the point of having a voice if you’re gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn’t be?”
― The Hate U Give
― The Hate U Give
“ON DREAMS Chasing a dream is like a new-born baby learning to walk. You will stagger many times and fall down, but one day, if you don’t give up, you will crawl, walk, run, climb, and maybe even fly. —The Very Important Small Book of Life’s Little Wisdoms by Adunni”
― And So I Roar
― And So I Roar
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Alexus’s 2025 Year in Books
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