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Black Friend: Fun...

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Black Friend: Funny, incisive essays on navigating Blackness, tokenism, and friendship in predominantly white spaces.

by Ziwe

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by Eliot Weinberger

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“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
― Mark Twain

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