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	06/14 Jason is currently reading: Tales of Nevèrÿon (Paperback) by Samuel R. Delany bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	11/04 Jason gave to: Total Light Process: New & Selected Poems (Kentucky Voices) by James Baker Hall bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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June 14
	Jason is currently reading: Tales of Nevèrÿon (Paperback) by Samuel R. Delany bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	Jason gave to: Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas (Black Arts Movement Series) by Henry Dumas	my rating:
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	Jason gave to: Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior (Mass Market Paperback) by Chogyam Trungpa	my rating:
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	Jason gave to: Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (Paperback) by Jonathan Kozol	my rating:
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	Jason gave to: Narrative Design: Working with Imagination, Craft, and Form (Paperback) by Madison Smartt Bell	my rating:
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May 15
	Jason marked as to-read: Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies & Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films (Paperback) by Donald Bogle bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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April 07
	Jason marked as to-read: The Waterfront Journals (Hardcover) by David Wojnarowicz bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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January 01
	Jason marked as to-read: Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching About Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word (Paperback) by Linda Christensen bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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December 30, 2008
	Jason marked as to-read: nappy edges (Paperback) by Ntozake Shange bookshelves: to-read	my rating:
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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational, stories, writing

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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational, writing

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"Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man."
— Muhammad Ali

11 people liked it

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it...always."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory

284 people liked it

"The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink."
— Walter Mosley

tags: writing

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May Peace Prevail on Earth.LOVE it or leave it but don't destroy it.

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A group for readers of Buddhist literature.

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Books with plots and characters more appealing to young male readers, from the youngest readers to pre-teens.

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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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