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In Rue’s mind folks who didn’t say plainly what they wanted harbored the most pernicious type of wanting.
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
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“Love is never any better than the lover.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Song of Solomon
― Song of Solomon
“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 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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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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