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Yanee
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“My biggest discovery was that you can literally re-create your life. You can redefine it. You don’t have to live in the past. I found that not only did I have fight in me, I had love.”
― Finding Me
― Finding Me
“What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation of a man a whip and a chair? The lion has been taught to forget what it is.”
― Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through
― Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through
“Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?”
― Perfect Chemistry
― Perfect Chemistry
“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
― The Hundred Secret Senses
― The Hundred Secret Senses
“The constantly being beaten down so much makes you begin to feel that you’re wrong. Not that you did wrong, but you were wrong. It makes you so angry at your abuser, the one that you’re too afraid to confront, so you confront the easiest target. Those you can. Until your heart gets tired. No one ever, up until that point, talked to us, asked us what our dreams were, asked us how we were feeling. It was on us to figure it out. There is an emotional abandonment that comes with poverty and being Black. The weight of generational trauma and having to fight for your basic needs doesn’t leave room for anything else. You just believe you’re the leftovers.”
― Finding Me
― Finding Me
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Yanee’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Yanee’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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