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“Loving, worshipping, and bowing down to folks who harmed you was written into the genes of all animal creatures. To be alive meant to lust after connection, and better to have one with the enemy than with no one at all. A baby's fingers and mouth grasp on instinct.”
― Sorrowland
― Sorrowland
“Explanations were like assholes. Everyone has one and they are all full of shit.”
― Blacktop Wasteland
― Blacktop Wasteland
“A man writes to separate himself from the common history. A woman writes to try to join it.”
― The Confessions of Frannie Langton
― The Confessions of Frannie Langton
“Sometimes, being convenient instead of real was exhausting. So maybe from now on, she’d stop.”
― Act Your Age, Eve Brown
― Act Your Age, Eve Brown
“The white man wants to blame his sins on colored women. His depravity is our fault.”
― Island Queen
― Island Queen
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
Mystery Madness
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March Mystery Madness Participants Group Welcome! This is a group for Mystery readers, particularly participants of the March Mystery Madness Readath ...more
Black Coffee
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This group focuses on books written by or about black people from all continents in many different genres though we focus on historical fiction and cl ...more
#ReadSoulLit Read Along- Tar Baby
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— last activity Mar 16, 2018 09:30AM
This group is reading and discussing Tar Baby as a read along in honor of Black History Month!
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We are a group of black women who love to read, want to read more and meet like-minded women. #mochagirlsread Join Us in person: https://www.meetup.c ...more
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