Katrina Smith

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Katrina is Currently Reading

Katrina Smith is currently reading

Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed

by Dashka Slater (Goodreads Author)

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""On the average, a black man, woman or child was murdered nearly once a week, every week, between 1882 and 1930 by a hate-driven white mob," sociologists Stewart E. Tolnay and E. M. Beck write in A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882-1930" — Oct 19, 2023 08:26PM

Oct 19, 2023 08:23PM

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Good Inside: A Practical Guide to Resilient Parenting Prioritizing Connection Over Correction

by Becky Kennedy

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Jan 29, 2023 04:32PM

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Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

by Johann Hari

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Dec 14, 2022 09:31AM

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Katrina’s Quotes

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood

tags: imitation, influence, inspiration

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“We learned that the fruit of the Spirit could not be drummed up by ourselves. We couldn’t force joyfulness or loving action or a peaceful mind. The Holy Spirit had to grow those things within us.”
― Gracia Burnham, In the Presence of My Enemies

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“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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“There was a Gracia I barely knew existed: fearful Gracia, selfish Gracia, bitter Gracia, angry-at-God Gracia. That wasn’t the only me, but it was a bigger part of me than I wanted to accept.”
― Gracia Burnham, In the Presence of My Enemies

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“Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality