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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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“School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.”
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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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“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
“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
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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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Jamal’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Jamal’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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