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“My mama say education will give me a voice. I want more than just a voice, Ms. Tia. I want a louding voice,” I say. “I want to enter a room and people will hear me even before I open my mouth to be speaking. I want to live in this life and help many people so that when I grow old and die, I will still be living through the people I am helping.”
― The Girl with the Louding Voice
― The Girl with the Louding Voice
“Not his-story. My own will be called her-story.”
― The Girl with the Louding Voice
― The Girl with the Louding Voice
“She is a sunflower! She brings hope to people.”
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“You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.”
― Tuesdays with Morrie
― Tuesdays with Morrie
“I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Mpho’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Mpho’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Christian, Contemporary, Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Poetry, Psychology, Travel, and Young-adult
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