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“The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic, but to end the injustice.”
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“We are simply spirits in a shell. The body is merely a covering, a casement for the soul.”
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“You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. It's a terrestrial characteristic. When human intelligence served it instead of guiding it, when human intelligence did not even acknowledge it as a problem, but took pride in it or did not notice it at all... That was like ignoring cancer.”
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“Believe in God, believe in yourself, believe in whatever it is you are trying to accomplish…believe in that order.”
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“Writing permits me to be more than I am. Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.”
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Literary Fiction by People of Color
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This can include genre fiction that is literary (e.g. speculative fiction, historical fiction, etc.), as long as it's written by a person of color (Af ...more
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This group is reading and discussing Tar Baby as a read along in honor of Black History Month!
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1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up
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This is a group for those who want to take on the less-daunting task of reading all of the books from Julia Eccleshare's 1001 Children's Books You Mus ...more
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This book club reads literature by or about African Americans and the African Diaspora in all genres: including fiction, non-fiction, mystery, romance ...more
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