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Leave Your Mess at Home

by Tolani Akinola (Goodreads Author)

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"Lowkey, eff Marisol and her desire to blend in. Ola ain’t shit either, but eff Marisol - for real." — 16 hours, 45 min ago

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The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott by Jill Scott

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“Oh no Jill, he too black and Lord Lord what would them babies look like?”

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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
― Maya Angelou

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“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

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“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. ”
― James Baldwin

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“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: 2008, advice

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