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“You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.”
― Joe Turner's Come and Gone
― Joe Turner's Come and Gone
“People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”
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“School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.”
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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
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I always wanted to have a Book Club. I was always a bookworm. But, because I think there's a lot of cool groups here on Goodreads I thought it would b ...more
Jamal’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jamal’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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