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Soft on Soft
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“Nah, just honest,” she murmured. “You know, usually, people use that for when they’re being jerks. I’m glad people like you exist who use it for kindness.”
“Ghetto" signaled that a place was both black and hopeless. It was a label that foretold failure and then hastened its arrival.”
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“Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses... swapped back and forth and over again.”
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“They’re not special at all. The South Side is filled with kids like that.”
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“It’s a curious thing to realize, the in-betweenness one feels being African American in Africa. It gave me a hard-to-explain feeling of sadness, a sense of being unrooted in both lands.”
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“[Y]ou may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.”
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Jayla’s 2025 Year in Books
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