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Often, being a person of color in white-dominated society is like being in an abusive relationship with the world. Every day is a new little hurt, a new little dehumanization.
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“You’re overthinking it.’ ‘I have anxiety. I have no other type of thinking available.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“You don’t have to understand life. You just have to live it.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“The only way to learn is to live.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“Never underestimate the big importance of small things”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“I thought about the way my mind wanders, how I drift through days losing hours, forgetting to remain in my body. How they call me absentminded, forgetful. The way I am mercury spilling over surfaces—solid and liquid, here and not.”
― I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
― I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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Great African Reads
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NaNoWriMo 2022
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The Goal: 50,000 words, written or typed, in a novel format, created within the month of November. The Start Date: November 1st, 12:00AM The Deadline: ...more
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