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How does one, in the words so often used by such institutions, “come to terms with” (which usually means move past) ongoing and quotidian atrocity?
Christina Sharpe • In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
What other creature in the world besides the Black woman has had to build the knowledge of so much hatred into her survival and keep going?
Cheryl Clarke • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
The Fire Next Time: My Dungeon Shook; Down at the Cross (Penguin Modern Classics)
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rights of man,
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
She was in love with Alim Blake. She was going home to Brooklyn. That was the solid ground she could stand on, no matter what. Anything else was unpredictable, a current careening past, seizing and discarding whoever and whatever it wanted.
Akwaeke Emezi • You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty: A Novel
These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home
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