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currently-reading (31)
to-read (984)
it-s-not-you-it-s-me (140)
poetry-to-read (60)
not-for-me-now (46)
read-a-part (24)
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will-never-read-but-sound-great (4)
queer (265)
audio (233)
currently-reading (31)
to-read (984)
it-s-not-you-it-s-me (140)
poetry-to-read (60)
not-for-me-now (46)
read-a-part (24)
to-read-next (23)
not-to-read (11)
will-never-read-but-sound-great (4)
queer (265)
audio (233)
mystery-thriller
(219)
blew-my-mind (194)
psychic-pain (185)
african-american (182)
trauma (141)
great-britain (130)
memoir (108)
im-emigration-post-colonial (102)
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africa (90)
canada (89)
blew-my-mind (194)
psychic-pain (185)
african-american (182)
trauma (141)
great-britain (130)
memoir (108)
im-emigration-post-colonial (102)
kids (101)
spec-fantasy-sf (99)
africa (90)
canada (89)
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"350 pages to the end and I have to stop again cuz HOLY SMOKES book 4 isn’t easy to read y’all. At first I thought, yeah, I can handle this, not too graphic. But no no no, it’s too much! Resuming in a bit though cuz I love this book so much." — May 29, 2019 03:33PM
"350 pages to the end and I have to stop again cuz HOLY SMOKES book 4 isn’t easy to read y’all. At first I thought, yeah, I can handle this, not too graphic. But no no no, it’s too much! Resuming in a bit though cuz I love this book so much." — May 29, 2019 03:33PM
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![Kiese Laymon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1375822963i/6164789._UY200_CR8,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The nation as it is currently constituted has never dealt with a yesterday or tomorrow where we were radically honest, generous, and tender with each other.”
― Heavy
― Heavy
![Anna Burns](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1539729090i/396165._UY200_CR87,0,200,200_.jpg)
“She meant depressions, for da had had them: big, massive, scudding, whopping, black-cloud, infectious, crow, raven, jackdaw, coffin-upon-coffin, catacomb-upon-catacomb, skeletons-upon-skulls-upon-bones crawling along the ground to the grave type of depressions.”
― Milkman
― Milkman
![Kiese Laymon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1375822963i/6164789._UY200_CR8,0,200,200_.jpg)
“This summer, it took one final conversation with Grandmama for me to understand that no one in our family and very few folk in this nation has any desire to reckon with the weight of where we've been. Which means no one in our family and very few folk in this nation wants to be free.”
― Heavy
― Heavy
![Jenny Erpenbeck](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1292742985i/11572._UX200_CR0,1,200,200_.jpg)
“there’s no better way to make history disappear than to unleash money, money roaming free has a worse bite than an attack dog, it can effortlessly bite an entire building out of existence,”
― Go, Went, Gone
― Go, Went, Gone
![Kiese Laymon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1375822963i/6164789._UY200_CR8,0,200,200_.jpg)
“After reading Bambara, I wondered for the first time how great an American sentence, paragraph, or book could be if it wasn't, at least partially, written to and for black Americans in the Deep South.”
― Heavy
― Heavy
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