Fee Bolden

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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

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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

“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
― Malcolm X

tags: books, reading

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

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