Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book

Monica

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Monica.


The Ministry of Time
Monica is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Daisy Jones & The...
Monica is currently reading
by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
The Girl I Was
Monica is currently reading
by Jeneva Rose (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
See all 100 books that Monica is reading…
Loading...
Maya Angelou
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Maya Angelou

Toni Morrison
“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.”
Toni Morrison

Sylvia Plath
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“When I die
Give what’s left of me away
To children
And old men that wait to die.

And if you need to cry,
Cry for your brother
Walking the street beside you
And when you need me,
Put your arms
Around anyone
And give to them
What you need to give to me.

I want to leave you something,
Something better
Than words
Or sounds.

Look for me
In the people I’ve known
Or loved,
And if you cannot give me away,
At least let me live in your eyes
And not on your mind.

You can love me most
By letting
Hands touch hands
By letting
Bodies touch bodies
And by letting go
Of children
That need to be free.

Love doesn’t die,
People do.
So, when all that’s left of me
Is love,
Give me away”
Merrit Malloy

Nikki Giovanni
“If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.”
Nikki Giovanni

376 Literary Fiction by People of Color — 13519 members — last activity Jul 27, 2026 02:50PM
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
56412 Necessary Fiction — 652 members — last activity Apr 24, 2012 10:43PM
A complementary group to the webjournal Necessary Fiction, to share books by our contributors and from our reviews section.
year in books
Tactile...
1,333 books | 47 friends

Michelle
958 books | 31 friends

Carmen
233 books | 14 friends

Erida
565 books | 98 friends

Gerald ...
959 books | 58 friends

Ali Spi...
333 books | 397 friends

Wayne F...
99 books | 83 friends

Joseph Rex
91 books | 18 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Monica

Lists liked by Monica