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Bone Black

by bell hooks

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TISA: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set

by Chris Abani

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The Wretched of the Earth

by Frantz Fanon

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Folasade’s Quotes

“We came from somewhere—everything does. When the transition is made from spirit to flesh, the gates are meant to be closed. It’s a kindness. It would be cruel not to.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

tags: gates-between-worlds, gods

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“The gods do not care. It is not them, after all, that will pay the cost.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

tags: cost, gods

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“Understand this if you understand nothing: it is a powerful thing to be seen”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

tags: see, seen, understand

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“{T}here is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity.”
― Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

tags: grief-inspirational-bereavement

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“The world in my head has been far more real than the one outside—maybe that’s the exact definition of madness, come to think of it.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

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