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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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“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
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“People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”
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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
“When the sins of our fathers visit us
We do not have to play host.
We can banish them with forgiveness
As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.”
― Fences
We do not have to play host.
We can banish them with forgiveness
As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.”
― Fences
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
Food Book Club
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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
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