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Celeste’s favorite books

Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein When Angels Speak of Love by bell hooks Communion by bell hooks Belonging by bell hooks Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler Virginia Woolf by Mary Ann Caws Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea by Nikki Giovanni Rich Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich
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Celeste’s Quotes

bell hooks
“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.”
― bell hooks
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“Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.”
― bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love
tags: humanism, love, self-knowledge
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Adult Fiction, Art, Book Club, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, and Poetry


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