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Kai is Currently Reading

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The Last Contract of Isako

by Fonda Lee (Goodreads Author)

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I Won't Shut Up: Finding Your Voice When the World Tries to Silence You (An Unvarnished Perspective on Racism That Calls Black Women to Find Their Voice)

by Ally Henny

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Silence Is My Mother Tongue

by Sulaiman Addonia

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Kai’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson

Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson by Tourmaline

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With all the negative attitudes and anti-us people in this world, we need to remember that we are unique and wonderful! We are the creative souls of humankind. —Miss Major, Dear Glamour Girls!

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Kai’s Quotes

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: inner-strength, mahatma-gandhi, strength, will

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“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: books, reading

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