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Paula’s favorite books

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Notebook Know-How by Aimee Buckner The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little by Peggy Gifford Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal I Read It, but I Don't Get It by Cris Tovani Mindset by Carol S. Dweck The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
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Paula’s Quotes

Flannery O'Connor
“I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.”
― Flannery O'Connor
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
tags: race, racism, racism-in-america, white-privilege
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John Lewis
“Every generation leaves behind a legacy. What that legacy will be is determined by the people of that generation. What legacy do you want to leave behind?”
― John Lewis, Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America
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E.M. Forster
“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”
― E.M. Forster
tags: advice, e-m-forster, essay, fiction, writing
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