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Nakia is Currently Reading

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Honey & Spice

by Bolu Babalola

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Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore

by Char Adams

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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

by Saidiya Hartman

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Nakia’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Color Purple (The Color Purple Collection, #1)

The Color Purple (The Color Purple Collection, #1) by Alice Walker

3 notes & 13 highlights

But I don’t know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

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Synthia Salomon

You are making me want to re-read this book!

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Nakia

Go for it. It's a great one.

The Wilderness

by Angela Flournoy

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Linden Hills

by Gloria Naylor

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Nakia’s Quotes

“may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”
― Lucille Clifton

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“I think of how Grandma makes fun of love. And maybe that’s the key.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

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“I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.”
― August Wilson, Joe Turner's Come and Gone

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“If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

tags: life

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