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The Topeka School

by Ben Lerner

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The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin (The Ill-Mannered Ladies, #2)

by Alison Goodman (Goodreads Author)

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Good Spirits (Ghosted, #1)

by B.K. Borison (Goodreads Author)

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“You have been cast into a race in which the wind is always at your face and the hounds are always at your heels. And to varying degrees this is true of all life. The difference is that you do not have the privilege of living in ignorance of this essential fact.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

tags: african-americans, blacks, challenges, race, racism, whites

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“It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness. Carry on imperfectly, shining Ista.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls

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“My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

tags: parenting

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“I was failing Witching 101 and being critiqued by dachshunds. This was so not my night.”
― Delia James, By Familiar Means

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“I've been miserable for more years than I can count... I have suffered, too.... A girl requires more than expensive things. She needs love and acceptance. She needs to know she has value. Being your daughter made me in to a shadow. Much longer, I fear I would have vanished.”
― Mimi Matthews, The Belle of Belgrave Square

tags: self-esteem, self-love, self-worth

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