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Sharila

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Sharila’s Quotes

“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

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

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“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

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

tags: burdens, empowerment, flying, freedom, unburdening, weight

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

tags: abolition, human-rights, politics, slavery, suffrage

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Mocha Girls Read — 7062 members — last activity Jul 13, 2026 08:14AM
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

Oprah's Book Club (Official) — 87333 members — last activity 7 hours, 58 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

Black Prose Book Club (Formerly A Seat at the Table Book Club) — 353 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

African American Beta Readers/Reviewers — 595 members — last activity Jul 13, 2026 06:45AM
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

Around the World in 80 Books — 31538 members — last activity 6 hours, 1 min ago
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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