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Theo of Golden

by Allen Levi (Goodreads Author)

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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

by Richard Rothstein

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The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

by Elaine Scarry

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Book cover for Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) by Donna Murch

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The tendency to understand Black Power as northern, urban, and violent in contrast to a southern movement of peaceful civil disobedience has rendered the political significance of California's migrant diaspora largely invisible.

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“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
― A.A. Milne

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“Our blood is the same, we just use it differently.”
― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers

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“The reader is always looking for two things in the novel: themselves and transcendence.”
― Walter Mosley, This Year You Write Your Novel

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“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

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