Shannon Whitehead

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Shannon’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (1409)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (296)
nonfiction‎ (303)
christian‎ (199)
books-i-own‎ (197)
2020-releases‎ (170)
2019-releases‎ (168)
essays-short-stories‎ (159)
contemporary-fiction‎ (137)
2021-releases‎ (122)

historical-fiction‎ (102)
theology‎ (76)
nonfiction-history‎ (72)
literary-fiction‎ (69)
read-2018‎ (54)
read-2019‎ (54)
race‎ (52)
read-2017‎ (48)
kindle‎ (45)
arc‎ (41)
on-writing‎ (41)

mystery-thriller‎ (32)
read-2020‎ (30)
social-justice‎ (28)
african-american-fiction‎ (27)
poetry‎ (23)
classics‎ (20)
native-american‎ (20)
2022-releases‎ (19)
apologetics‎ (16)
childhood‎ (15)
mental-health‎ (14)

favorites‎ (9)
lgbtq‎ (9)
creativity‎ (7)
productivity‎ (7)
to-come-back-to‎ (6)
cried‎ (5)
memoir‎ (2)
food‎ (1)

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Shannon’s Quotes

“I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

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“Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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“But the picking out, the choosing. Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind.”
― Toni Morrison, Jazz

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