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because you’re young and don’t know the difference between abandoned and alone just like your mother’s heart won’t know the difference between beat and attack.
“And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.”
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“When the white man came to Africa, the white man had the Bible and the African had the land, but now it is the white man who is being, reluctantly and bloodily, separated from the land, and the African who is still attempting to digest or to vomit up the Bible.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!”
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“I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.”
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“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
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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
April’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at April’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
291 books
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382 books
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33 books
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313 friends
86 books
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115 friends
392 books
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46 friends
65 books
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27 friends
1 book
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