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One of my arms, in a trapezoid of light, had burned to pink. He blew on my arm to cool it, and in that moment, what love was seemed so clear to me: the need to guard against loss. If I lost him, I thought then, feeling his cool breath
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“They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them.”
― Our Lady of the Flowers
― Our Lady of the Flowers
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”
― The Prophet
― The Prophet
2013 Clutch Reading Challenge
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A place to discuss Clutch Magazine's crowd-sourced 2013 list of 100 books by black women writers that everyone should read. ...more
One Book Per Week: 2013
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Daily reading, whether a newspaper, essay, or novel, provides intellectual sustenance and strengthens our critical thinking, debate, and reasoning ski ...more
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