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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

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A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)

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“No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

tags: homeland, imaginary-things, immigrants, immigration

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“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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“The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

tags: ambition, ambition-and-attitude, ambition-life-ambitions, ambition-quote, ambition-quotes, ambitions, bangambiki, barbarity, cruel, cruel-people, cruel-world, cruelties, cruelty, devil, devil-quotes, dictatorship, enormity, evil, evil-man, evil-men, evil-people, evil-quotes, evil-spirit, evil-thoughts, evil-words, evilness, evils, good, good-and-evil, good-and-evil-quote, good-and-evil-quotes, good-deeds, good-deeds-quotes, good-vs-evil, inhumanity, iniquitious, iniquity, lies-politics, love-of-power, lust-for-power, macchiavelli, machiavellian, misuse-of-power, political, political-ambition, political-ambition-quotes, political-correctness, political-philosophy, politicians, politics, power, power-addiction, survival-instinct, survival-is-the-name-of-the-game, survival-of-the-fittest, survival-quotes, survival-story, survivalism, survivalist, survive, surviving-life, survivor, the-great-pearl-of-wisdom, universe, universe-quotations, universe-quote, universe-quotes, wicked, wicked-intensions, wicked-people, wickedness

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“We all reach a point as young adults when we wonder what we should be doing with our lives—or, at the very least, which direction to point ourselves in. Beyond the means to get by, we need to think about what’s most important to us. Not surprisingly, I discovered that for me the answer was family.”
― Saroo Brierley, A Long Way Home

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