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James Baldwin
“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

Zora Neale Hurston
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
Zora Neale Hurston

Philip Roth
“Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.”
Philip Roth

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Flannery O'Connor
“I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.”
Flannery O'Connor

857606 Bookstagram Buddy Read - THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS — 98 members — last activity Feb 20, 2019 06:52AM
A Bookstagram Buddy Read in honor of Black History Month with Jamise (@spinesvines) & Kate (@kate.olson.reads). ...more
1179150 Black Readers Con — 147 members — last activity Oct 13, 2022 08:32PM
Black Readers Con is a three-day event to enhance & amplify the voices of Black Readers & the Book Clubs they love. We are planning our second confere ...more
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