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Creole Books
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Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as creole)
avg rating 3.59 — 104,858 ratings — published 1966
Slave Old Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as creole)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,100 ratings — published 1997
The Feast of All Saints (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as creole)
avg rating 3.88 — 18,608 ratings — published 1979
Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as creole)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,830 ratings — published 1999
The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as creole)
avg rating 4.20 — 60 ratings — published 1977
The Awakening and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as creole)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,096 ratings — published 2000
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as creole)
avg rating 3.69 — 224,522 ratings — published 1899
The Pepper in the Gumbo (Men of Cane River, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as creole)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,574 ratings — published 2014
The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as creole)
avg rating 3.49 — 305 ratings — published 1880
The Exiles (The Creole #1)
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avg rating 3.79 — 261 ratings — published 2003
Memories of the Old Plantation Home: A Creole Family Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as creole)
avg rating 3.66 — 378 ratings — published 2000
The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as creole)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,538 ratings — published 1989
Cane River (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 50,248 ratings — published 2001
Chef Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as creole)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,184 ratings — published 1984
High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as creole)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,410 ratings — published 2010
Talk About Good Cookbook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as creole)
avg rating 4.44 — 160 ratings — published
Emeril's New New Orleans Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as creole)
avg rating 3.99 — 307 ratings — published 1993
Gumbo: a Savor the South cookbook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 3.58 — 12 ratings — published 2015
The Dooky Chase Cookbook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 4.29 — 98 ratings — published 1990
America, My Love, America, My Heart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 3.87 — 363 ratings — published 2021
Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,248 ratings — published 2009
Blood at the Root (Blood at the Root, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,256 ratings — published 2024
Kwéyòl / Creole: Recipes, Stories, and Tings from a St. Lucian Chef's Journey: A Cookbook (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 18 ratings — published
Yumbo Gumbo (Storytelling Math)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 4.00 — 124 ratings — published
Weston Cage & Nicolas Cage's Voodoo Child TPB (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 2.78 — 58 ratings — published 2008
Matriarch: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 4.48 — 7,104 ratings — published 2025
We Are Who We Say We Are: A Black Family's Search for Home Across the Atlantic World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 3.62 — 8 ratings — published 2014
Soggy Like Cush Cush (A Picture Book Celebration of Creole Culture for Kids)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 3.92 — 39 ratings — published
Trosclair and the Alligator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 3.72 — 54 ratings — published 2005
Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 3.66 — 268 ratings — published
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 4.12 — 841,910 ratings — published 2020
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,605 ratings — published 2008
The Girl with the Hazel Eyes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 3.95 — 594 ratings — published 2019
Blue Beans (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 4.27 — 11 ratings — published 2017
A Caribbean Heiress in Paris (Las Leonas, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,564 ratings — published 2022
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,089 ratings — published 2017
Louisiana Creole Peoplehood: Afro-Indigeneity and Community (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 4.62 — 8 ratings — published
Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 3.58 — 339 ratings — published 2022
Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 291 ratings — published
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Turkey and the Wolf: Flavor Trippin' in New Orleans [A Cookbook] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 4.05 — 323 ratings — published 2022
Mosquito Supper Club: Cajun Recipes from a Disappearing Bayou (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 4.48 — 387 ratings — published
Yerba Buena (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 3.85 — 30,440 ratings — published 2022
Conversational Spanish Dialogues: Over 100 Spanish Conversations and Short Stories (Conversational Spanish Dual Language Books nº 1) (Spanish Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 3.49 — 63 ratings — published
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Early American Studies)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 4.21 — 152 ratings — published 2020
An American Color: Race and Identity in New Orleans and the Atlantic World (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 4.80 — 5 ratings — published
Seven Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 3.99 — 212,400 ratings — published 2021
Dictionary of Louisiana Creole (French Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as creole)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 1998
Dimensions of a Creole Continuum: History, Texts, and Linguistic Analysis of Guyanese Creole (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1987
“There is a marked difference between brilliance and intellectuality.
Some of us use both words interchangeably to describe people who can use big words.
A number of people are grandiloquent but not wise.
A person can be verbose but not esoteric.
Just as literacy does not equate to intelligence.
There are two types of learnt people in the world.
Some persons are scholars and others are alchemist.
Let me further my thesis on intellectuals.
Now you have a scholar and an alchemist.
The scholar passes exams, memorizes words and phrases, the alchemist has the intellectual prowess to start a whole new fundamental truth, discipline and school of thought because they can create concepts from their own minds without no external inputs.
Alchemist pass exams without studying because they just know how things work or they use context clue.
For that reason not every smart person is a genius.
Alchemist use their brains to change or improve the world with ingenuity and originality.
The alchemist has a way with words, when they speak you stop and listen. The alchemist is witty in any language (Creole or patois).
Let’s renounce the colonial concept that using Anglo-Saxon words is a mark of intelligence.
Eg.
Kartel speaks English- Kartel intelligent yuh fawk.”
― Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis
Some of us use both words interchangeably to describe people who can use big words.
A number of people are grandiloquent but not wise.
A person can be verbose but not esoteric.
Just as literacy does not equate to intelligence.
There are two types of learnt people in the world.
Some persons are scholars and others are alchemist.
Let me further my thesis on intellectuals.
Now you have a scholar and an alchemist.
The scholar passes exams, memorizes words and phrases, the alchemist has the intellectual prowess to start a whole new fundamental truth, discipline and school of thought because they can create concepts from their own minds without no external inputs.
Alchemist pass exams without studying because they just know how things work or they use context clue.
For that reason not every smart person is a genius.
Alchemist use their brains to change or improve the world with ingenuity and originality.
The alchemist has a way with words, when they speak you stop and listen. The alchemist is witty in any language (Creole or patois).
Let’s renounce the colonial concept that using Anglo-Saxon words is a mark of intelligence.
Eg.
Kartel speaks English- Kartel intelligent yuh fawk.”
― Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis
“Don't give me no 'but you're beautiful on the inside' bullshit."
"No, you are beautiful on the outside," I say.
"Don't give me that bullshit either. I'm beautiful when I say I'm beautiful. Let me own that shit," she says. Her eyes have not left the computer screen this whole time, but I know she's paying attention to everything I say.
"Okay, then you are ugly."
"Thanks for being honest."
"Seriously. That's what we say in Haiti. 'Nou led, men nou la.' We are ugly, but we are here."
"We are ugly, but we are here," she says, almost whispering. "I hear that.”
― American Street
"No, you are beautiful on the outside," I say.
"Don't give me that bullshit either. I'm beautiful when I say I'm beautiful. Let me own that shit," she says. Her eyes have not left the computer screen this whole time, but I know she's paying attention to everything I say.
"Okay, then you are ugly."
"Thanks for being honest."
"Seriously. That's what we say in Haiti. 'Nou led, men nou la.' We are ugly, but we are here."
"We are ugly, but we are here," she says, almost whispering. "I hear that.”
― American Street
