Fee Bolden

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Fee’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) by Octavia E. Butler

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SOMETIMES NAMING A THING—giving it a name or discovering its name—helps one to begin to understand it. Knowing the name of a thing and knowing what that thing is for gives me even more of a handle on it.

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The Bluest Eye

by Toni Morrison

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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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“If a man does not have sauce, then he is lost. But the same man can get lost in the sauce.”
― Gucci Mane

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“You want to know what weakness is? Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

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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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“A daughter grows older and draws nearer to her mother, until she gradually overlaps her like a sewing pattern. But a son becomes some irreparably separate thing.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

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