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Watch Us Rise by Ms Renée Watson

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We do not want the whispers, winks, and side conversations when no one in power is looking. While I’m glad to know so many people support us behind closed doors, it would mean more to have this support out in the open. Your silence is ...more

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Sally’s Quotes

“Don't make your life about the loss. Make it about the love.”
― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn

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“But, you know, that feeling? When you wake up in the morning and you have somebody to think about? Somewhere for hope to go? It's good. Even when it's bad, it's good.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

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“There are white moms who threw stones at the little girls in Little Rock and there are white moms who wish Andres and Omar and Elias and Greta's mom will be deported too.”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

tags: cleveland, daca, deportation, little-rock-nine, norman-rockwell, ohio, ruby-bridges, segregation, undocumented, white-supremacy

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“What is belonging?” we ask. She says, “Where loneliness ends.”
― Rivers Solomon, The Deep

tags: belonging, loneliness

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“One can only go for so long without asking ‘who am I?’, ‘where do I come from?’, ‘what does all this mean?’, ‘what is being?’, ‘what came before me and what might come after?’. Without answers there is only a hole. A hole where a history should be that takes the shape of an endless longing. We are cavities.”
― Rivers Solomon, The Deep

tags: colonialism, history, intergenerational, memories

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A mostly monthly book club (February-November) focused on thriller/mystery/horror hosted by BooksandLala and a rotating set of wonderful co-hosts! li ...more