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Where Sleeping Girls Lie

by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (Goodreads Author)

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Voyager: Constellations of Memory

by Nona Fernández

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Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings – A Personal and Historical Exploration of Black Women's Journeys Through Intersectionality

by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

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My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

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The more he talks, the more I realize that I am a maga—a fool who has been

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“My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.”
― Richard M. Rorty

tags: atheism, atheist, civilization, descendants, future, global-civilization, hope, idealism, law, love, perfection, secular, secularist, sense-of-holy, utopia

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“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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“Shane wasn’t far removed from the man he’d been when he passed out on Gayle King’s shoulder as Jesse Williams announced that he’d won the 2009 NAACP Award for Outstanding Fiction.”
― Tia Williams, Seven Days in June

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“It was all a fine line in the South, she’d say. Given that those sinning, raping plantation owners had both white babies and Black babies, everyone was six degrees from being one or the other. Which was what scared southern white people the most.”
― Tia Williams, Seven Days in June

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A NEW BOOK CLUB: THIS IS THE MOST RELAXED BOOK CLUB YOU'VE EVER BEEN IN! The goal is to come together, read a few killer books, listen to opinions tha ...more

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