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“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Song of Solomon
― Song of Solomon
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
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“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
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“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata: An Autobiography
“Love is never any better than the lover.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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