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“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.”
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“Love happened. Love came to show you that you could be more than you could ever imagine, because love forced you out of the narrows of yourself and thrust you into a vastness that stretched from one end of time to the other. Nothing mattered except being in the presence of love, the greatest beauty of all.”
― Cupid: A Tale of Love and Desire
― Cupid: A Tale of Love and Desire
“Love and sex, honey. Either one can make you do the damndest things. The two combined will make you a sure ’nough fool.”
― Blanche Among the Talented Tenth
― Blanche Among the Talented Tenth
Kintu Summer Readalong
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— last activity Aug 02, 2020 11:50PM
Reading and discussing Kintu the Ugandan novel by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi.
The Book of Echoes - Read Soul Lit October 2020 Read Along
— 57 members
— last activity Nov 25, 2020 12:22AM
We'll be reading The Book of Echoes in October in honor of Black History Month in the UK. ...more
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
26a - Diana Evans Readalong
— 36 members
— last activity Nov 13, 2018 05:04PM
Discussing 26a by Diana Evans in honor of Black History Month UK
Unforgivable Love #ReadSoulLit Readalong in honor of Black History Month
— 94 members
— last activity Mar 03, 2019 02:51PM
Reading and discussing Unforgivable Love by Sophfronia Scott
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