Kelsey Burnette
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“What I saw there explained everything--the reason he had stayed away, why he had come to say good-bye. I can only describe what I saw by its effect on me. Every woman should be looked at in such a way, at least once her life. With a longing that cannot be contained--with love that goes beyond mere feeling because it transforms and-like the verse of the poem he had read--it dissolves, as an offering, a gift. I felt my face flush and waves of knowing suffused every pore, every cell of my being. I was loved. And in that love, I felt beauty--my own, unrealized until that moment, suddenly rising to consciousness in a way that made everything in me come alive to the beauty all around me. Nothing more needed to be said.”
― The Sweetness of Tears
― The Sweetness of Tears
“Reverend, if you’ve seen the things I have, you’d realize the devil is just the name we give to the terrible things we do to each other,”
― All the Sinners Bleed
― All the Sinners Bleed
“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Appalachian Leaves
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— last activity Jul 19, 2022 10:05AM
This group will discuss both fiction and non-fiction works that reflect the culture of Appalachia.
West Virginia's Readers
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— last activity Dec 15, 2014 08:23AM
From the Thundering Herd to the Moutaineers... From the Hancock Yankees to the Rebels of the Free and Independent State of McDowell... From north of t ...more
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