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“But as anyone who loves reading and writing quickly learns, both activities allow you to commune with the living and the dead, to listen to the thoughts of those who have come before you and argue, cajole, and sing praise for them in response.”

Writing Reading Author

Book:Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

Source: Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

“But the most dangerous thing that camp had taught me was the awful lesson of country living: out there, in the open, in the quiet, all the emptiness pressed itself up against you, pawed at the very center of your heart, convinced you to make friends with loneliness.”

Nature Loneliness Solitude

Book:We Love You, Charlie Freeman

Source: We Love You, Charlie Freeman

“I missed my one true friend, my mother. She and I were close in a way I don't think many other mothers and daughters were. I slept beside her every night of my childhood: so near to her back, I could probably sketch the constellation of moles and freckles on her skin there. When I was a very little girl, every morning I would wake before her and arrange myself so that when she woke, we were eye-to-eye. I miss her, with a never-ending ache that I did not think was possible, that crowds out any other feeling and certainly all reason, and any good sense.”

Love Loss Grief Mothers Daughters

Book:We Love You, Charlie Freeman

Source: We Love You, Charlie Freeman

“The whole nature of how ppl respond to this coup would change if ppl, knew the full history of Reconstruction--and learned it as "white identity based mobs regularly overturned elections whenever a Black person or someone perceived as a Black ally was elected" (12/12/2020 on Twitter)”

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Author:Kaitlyn Greenidge

“I am not beautiful and I am sarcastic and I believe I am better than most in this town and that is why I am a thirty-six-year-old orphan with no husband and why no man in Spring City has ever even held my hand.”

Book:We Love You, Charlie Freeman

Source: We Love You, Charlie Freeman

“History will judge them!' says the country with thousands of statues and memorials to Confederates (1/7/2021 on Twitter)”

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Author:Kaitlyn Greenidge

“Q: what radicalized you? A: When we lived in public housing my mom started a community garden to grow food to save money and to occupy the kids that lived there and the public housing authority came & pulled out all the plants and poured bleach into the ground to destroy it. Because gardens weren't allowed. (8/3/2020 on Twitter)”

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Author:Kaitlyn Greenidge