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Fee’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Bluest Eye: A Novel (Vintage International)

The Bluest Eye: A Novel (Vintage International) by Toni Morrison

1 note & 1 highlight

Knowing that there was such a thing as outdoors bred in us a hunger for property, for ownership. The firm possession of a yard, a porch, a grape arbor. Propertied black people spent all their energies, all their love, on their nests. Like ...more

This is so profound. ..wow.

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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

by Octavia E. Butler

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Fee’s Quotes

“Let the sun go down on you like King Harold at the battle of Hastings — fighting gloriously. Maybe a loser but what a loser! Greater in defeat than the conqueror. Certainly not a coward that rusted out lurking in his tent.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, A Life in Letters

tags: battle, defeat, losing, winners-mentality, winning-and-losing, zora-neale-hurston

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“The only way to own what I know is to write it and let you read it”
― Toni Morrison

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“A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.”
― Ida B. Wells-Barnett

tags: firearms

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