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Wilma
Funny
whipped
Funny
Nathan
Nathab DAwns husband is a book banning dickhead
Curious
What is this ref
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Books to read
Beloved.
Boik ref
“Fuuuuuuuck!
Fuuuuuuck
Crystal
Better woman tgan me. I could learn from this
how
Funny why see at gay bar
This Blood and Soil.
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don’t know how she manages to be evil and boring, but damn, if Lula ain’t killing it.”
Funny
“And why would someone want to vote for you? Aside from a willingness to film full frontal nudity,
Funny
Gather as much knowledge as you can, because information is power. And choosing how to use it is freedom. The more you know, the freer you will be.”
Info power
“Speak
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“Speak is about a girl who’s been raped.”
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Melody rolled her eyes. “The book didn’t make me want to kill my husband.” “It didn’t lure you off the righteous path?” Mara asked. “No.” “Are you sure?” Mara pressed her. “The book didn’t have anything to do with it?” “I said no,” Melody replied bluntly. “So do you think there’s a chance that some of the books you’ve labeled dangerous might actually be able to help some people?” Melody glared at her. “Maybe,” she finally conceded.
Not books fault
Betsy knew Lula better than most people in town—and she knew Lula loved novels that wouldn’t make it past any censors. Lula leading a crusade against dirty books was like Colonel Sanders waging a war against chicken.
Funny
The ladies of Troy had devised a secret language just to put one another down. You could insult someone’s whole family by bringing the wrong dish to a potluck. They used words like nice and sweet as their daggers and would stab you right in the heart with a cute. And heaven forbid anyone ever said you mean well.
Bless your heart
“The Bible says men lying with men is an abomination.” “The Bible’s got about a million words and that’s the only quote people can ever come up with to prove God frowns on gay folks. It’s from the Old Testament, which also says pigs are unclean and shouldn’t be touched. I don’t recall the pastor turning his nose up at any barbecue.” Betsy laughed at the thought. “Last time he was at our house for dinner, I was pretty sure he was going to eat a whole pig.”
Gay oldctestament
Jesus never said a damn thing about gay folks or barbecue. But he sure did talk a lot about love.”
Jesus gay love
The mulattos one sees in every family . . . resemble the white children. Any lady is ready to tell you who is the father of all the mulatto children in everybody’s household but her own. Those, she seems to think, drop from the clouds.
Mulattos
Isaac recognized a single name on Beverly Underwood’s family tree. When he entered that name into a blank space on his own, the DNA matched and the site accepted the man as an ancestor. The forefather he and Beverly Underwood shared was the man who’d “saved” Troy, Confederate general Augustus Wainwright.
Isaac related to Wainwright
But it was one empty space that haunted Isaac more than the others—the one right beside Augustus Wainwright. The unnamed Black woman who was the matriarch of their family. Who was she? Where had she been born and where had she gone? How did she come to give birth to a Confederate general’s child?
Wainwright lover
