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paradox of identity that Du Bois had made famous among Negro intellectuals more than forty years earlier: “One ever feels his twoness, an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings…”
Taylor Branch • Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
“You that farm boy always hangin around Desiree.”
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
I love how Glory defines being well-read as being able to dive down a rabbit hole. It is "about investigation and curiosity." She also shares a new term I now love called "literary lineages"- honoring the books that have been passed down through your family and the books that have helped you learn about yourself. She also highlights the importance ... See more
Glory Edim • For Colored Nerds - Thee Well-Read Black Girl, Glory Edim on Stitcher
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Alice Walker • The Color Purple
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Aimee herself had no abstract interest in power. She was motivated by something else: impatience. To Aimee poverty was one of the world’s sloppy errors,