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These Heathens

by Mia McKenzie (Goodreads Author)

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Our Share of Night

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Maame by Jessica George

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I almost tell her that fun doesn’t equate to happiness; at the very least, it lends you happiness and I want to know how to keep it. I’ve googled “How to be happy”; I’ve taken walks in the park and written long gratitude lists; I’m ...more

More Perfect

by Temi Oh

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Recitatif

by Toni Morrison

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courtney ★’s Quotes

“BLACK WOMEN aren’t meant to shovel snow.”
― Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

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“i will tell you, my daughter of your worth not your beauty every day.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

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“listen to my poems
but do not look for me
look for you.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

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“He truly wasn't very funny but:

1. Apart from Kyazike, who is ten times as funny as me, I don't find anyone as funny as me, even in this, the darkest period of my life.

2. Actually, no man is as funny as me or any woman I've ever met.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

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“White men get a choice. They get to choose they job, they house. They get to choose to make black babies, then disappear into thin air, like they wasn't never there to begin with, like these black women they slept with or raped done laid on top of themselves and got pregnant. White men get to choose for black men too. Used to sell 'em; now they just send 'em to prison like my daddy, so that they can't be with they kids.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

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