“ We delude ourselves when we believe we can make our lives go exactly as we plan. Too often, our intentions are at odds with our actions”. “ Everything that happens to us has merit, whether we recognize the surface significance of it or not. Everything in our lives ultimately leads us somewhere” “ To…
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Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today. — Malcolm X
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To choose to write is to reject silence. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Maya Angelou
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do. James Baldwin
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Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. Toni Morrison
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During her 2018 interview by NPR, Freshwater author Akwaeke Emezi stated: “I wanted to see what it would be like to look at a life through the lens of a different reality – something that was centered more in Igbo spirituality than in Western concepts of mental health, for example. And so, I used my…
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