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Frederick Douglass
“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
Frederick Douglass

W.E.B. Du Bois
“To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.”
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

Frederick Douglass
“Without a struggle, there can be no progress.”
Frederick Douglass

Chinua Achebe
“Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.”
Chinua Achebe

Toni Morrison
“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

55132 Mocha Girls Read — 6770 members — last activity 5 hours, 11 min ago
We are a group of black women who love to read, want to read more and meet like-minded women. #mochagirlsread Join Us in person: https://www.meetup.c ...more
85538 Oprah's Book Club (Official) — 84030 members — last activity 6 hours, 29 min ago
Welcome to the official Oprah's Book Club group. OBC is the interactive, multi-platform reading club bringing passionate readers together to discuss i ...more
813457 Black Prose Book Club (Formerly A Seat at the Table Book Club) — 358 members — last activity Jul 25, 2023 01:23PM
Welcome to Black Prose Book Club! Representation is soooo important and supporting black authors who write about black characters is essential to maki ...more
25x33 African American Beta Readers/Reviewers — 561 members — last activity Oct 17, 2025 07:38PM
I searched all over GR and I have yet to find a group of beta readers/reviewers strictly for AA fiction. Not that we want to exclude any group but AA ...more
52937 Around the World in 80 Books — 30504 members — last activity Oct 19, 2025 07:38PM
Reading takes you places. Where in the world will your next book take you? If you love world literature, translated works, travel writing, or explorin ...more
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