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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

by Alice Walker

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Jan 11, 2026 09:54PM

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Dec 04, 2024 09:13PM

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

by David Graeber

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Dec 04, 2024 09:12PM

“Poetry" is a word for a kind of value no particular poem can realize: the value of persons, the value of human activity beyond the labor/leisure divide, a value before or beyond price. Thus hating poetry can either be a way of negatively expressing poetry as an ideal [or] it can be a defensive rage against the mere suggestion that another world, another measure of value, is possible.”
― Ben Lerner, The Hatred of Poetry

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“If we are lost, God is like water, finding the unknowable path when we cannot.”
― Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage

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“Thank God for life," True Belle said, "and thank life for death.”
― Toni Morrison, Jazz

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“You want a real thing?” asked Alice. “I’ll tell you a real one. You got anything left to you to love, anything at all, do it.”
― Toni Morrison, Jazz

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“Mind what's left to you."
"You saying take it? Don't fight?"
Alice put down her iron, hard. "Fight what, who? Some mishandled child who saw her parents burn up? Who knew better than you or me or anybody just how small and quick this little bitty life is? Or maybe you want to stomp somebody with three kids and one pair of shoes. Somebody in a raggedy dress, the hem dragging in the mud. Somebody wanting arms just like you do and you want to go over there and hold her but her dress is muddy at the hem and the people standing around wouldn't understand how could anybody's eyes go so flat, how could they? Nobody's asking you to take it. I'm sayin make it, make it!”
― Toni Morrison, Jazz

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