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Wow is a mulatto woman who wants to be white This book is horrible. I really thought the reviews were exaggerating but they aren’t. This book really centers around 3 mixed women who became friends bc they were mixed and hate blackness.
Boo has to be ...more "
“give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. my name makes you want to tell me the truth. my name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.”
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“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
― The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993
― The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993
“Love is never any better than the lover.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“You are your best thing”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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