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Judge Stone

by Viola Davis

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After You've Gone

by Margot Hunt (Goodreads Author)

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Mad Love

by Wendy Walker (Goodreads Author)

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Book cover for The Haitians: A Decolonial History

The Haitians: A Decolonial History by Jean Casimir

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She asserts that individuals’ single stories are dangerous not only because the storyteller (whether scholar, journalist, banker, or officer of the state) acts on the assumption of the truth, without any parentheses, of what the story ...more

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Lois ’s Quotes

“Men only have it all by being willing to take from others. To ruin lives, to oppress.”
― Adriana Herrera, An Island Princess Starts a Scandal

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“Face it--the one person you never spend time with is yourself.”
― Jim Brickman, Jim Brickman -- Simple Things: Piano/Vocal/Chords

tags: mindfulness, self, self-awareness

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“Just because some Africans enslaved rival tribes before European arrival, doesn't mean all Africans enslaved. Buying/selling humans was unthinkable to peaceful tribes like our Lenape, and the San of Africa.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

tags: africa, peace, slavery

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“I make her leave on her stockings and high heels. I am a freak. I cannot bear the human being in present state, I must be fooled. the psychiatrists must have a word for it, and I have a word for the psychiatrists.”
― Charles Bukowski, Notes of a Dirty Old Man

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“People on the streets are dehumanized the same way settlers dehumanized the Indigenous, to steal the land of abundance at gunpoint, to tax the land to the fullest.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

tags: indigenous, streets

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