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Americanah

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

bookshelves: african-amer, currently-reading

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May 26, 2017 04:33PM

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Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence

by Sarah Young (Goodreads Author)

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Melissa said: " Great devotional book!!! It only takes 5-10 min a day. 1-2 paragraphs and then short reading from the bible. Great prayer book to start with. Changes your life one day at a time. "

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(page 400 of 401)
— Dec 29, 2015 10:33AM

Jun 14, 2013 06:56PM · see review

Melissa’s Quotes

“What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?”
― Delores Phillips, The Darkest Child

39 likes

“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.”
― Assata Shakur

tags: assata-shakur, education, heroes, history, knowledge

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“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

tags: liberation, oppression, resistance

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“She denied and feared God in the same breath. She allowed our actions to shame her, and yet was void of shame. I truly believed there was something unnatural about her - a madness only her children could see. My yearning was not to understand it, but to escape it.”
― Delores Phillips, The Darkest Child

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