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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.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“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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“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
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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
“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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