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I’ve been afraid, forever, of performing my identity incorrectly. My Muslimness, my Sudaneseness, my Americanness, my Blackness, my womanhood, all of it.
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
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“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
― Ender's Game
― Ender's Game
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
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“For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.”
― The Wretched of the Earth
― The Wretched of the Earth
Vanessa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Vanessa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
675 books
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9 friends
617 books
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242 friends
4,113 books
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154 friends
137 books
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51 friends
1,530 books
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339 friends
357 books
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15 friends
383 books
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30 friends
611 books
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49 friends
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