Lily Java
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"I need to properly give this phenomenal writer her due through this review. Lily Java is a literary fiction writer who weaves intimate and authentic stories. What I really appreciate about Lily's delivery in this particular book was her ability to ca"
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"Perhaps it's taken me this long and in this later stage of my life for me to finally get around to reading Beloved because I might have missed so much had I attempted it earlier. That's my only excuse for not having read Toni Morrison until now. Perh"
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Best History & Biography |
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“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.”
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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.”
― The White Album
― The White Album

“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.”
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