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Time slowed down too. Sauntered like hours did in places like Chattanooga and Charleston and Savannah. A notoriously southern phenomenon now spread like honey over everything. Ask the time and folks just looked up at the sky, mumbling,
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“Somebody" said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour--and in the oddest places!--for the lack of it.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
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“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all.”
― Notes of a Native Son
― Notes of a Native Son
“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimeter the way people look at reality, then you can change it.”
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“Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
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An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more
Black Prose Book Club (Formerly A Seat at the Table Book Club)
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Welcome to Black Prose Book Club! Representation is soooo important and supporting black authors who write about black characters is essential to maki ...more
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