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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.”
“[Y]ou may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“I've learned that it's harder to hate up close.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses... swapped back and forth and over again.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“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.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“It’s remarkable how a stereotype functions as an actual trap. How many “angry black women” have been caught in the circular logic of that phrase? When you aren’t being listened to, why wouldn’t you get louder? If you’re written off as angry or emotional, doesn’t that just cause more of the same?”
― Becoming
― Becoming
Jayla’s 2025 Year in Books
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22 friends
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