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Charlene’s Notes & Highlights

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

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don’t mistake salt for sugar if he wants to be with you he will it’s that simple

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Charlene’s Quotes

“We move not on but forward.”
― Sarai Johnson, Grown Women

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“Language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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“We can learn from trauma. We can become better, more efficient, if we do the work.”
― Sarai Johnson, Grown Women

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“And isn’t that what literature should teach us. To be our own hero. To love. To care. To cry. To laugh. To live. And try to let others live, too.”
― Nikki Giovanni, Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems – A Tour de Force of African American Poetry and Contemporary Literature

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“And anytime you do your best. Whatever your best is. You are a winner. You are a writer. You are telling your story. Good for all of us. You are.”
― Nikki Giovanni, Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems – A Tour de Force of African American Poetry and Contemporary Literature

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Black Girls Read! — 9210 members — last activity Oct 02, 2026 04:07AM
A group for African-American women to share, discuss and recommend quality books by and for other African-Americans.

Literary Fiction by People of Color — 13642 members — last activity 1 hour, 41 min ago
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

Oprah's Book Club (Official) — 88208 members — last activity 21 minutes ago
Welcome to the official Oprah's Book Club group. OBC is the interactive, multi-platform reading club bringing passionate readers together to discuss i ...more

Black Coffee — 3112 members — last activity 20 hours, 18 min ago
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

Christian Books — 1311 members — last activity 17 hours, 38 min ago
Recommend great Christian books to others. Daniel 12:3 "...and those who turn the many to righteousness will shine like the stars forever." ...more

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