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Submit to Readers of Color
long story short, i got tired of reading, intelligence, and geekdom being thought of as only being a "white thing." here you will mostly find book recommendations of authors of color and pictures of pretty people reading. after you're done browsing, do me a favor and submit something!
“A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.”
—from THINGS FALL APART by Chinua Achebe
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3 hours ago
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Sandra Cisneros reads from her story “Beautiful and Cruel” from The House on Mango Street
“I have decided not to grow up tame like the others, who lay their necks on the threshold, waiting for the ball and chain.”
(via awritersruminations)
19 hours ago
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If you’re a bird or soul
I am only one mile
from the sea. If you
are a soul in two bodies
life is more complex
and we must labor
twice the field of sorrow
after sleep, bath, and a glass
as Aquinas whispers, the things
we love tell us who we are.
I am only one mile
from the sea. If you
are a soul in two bodies
life is more complex
and we must labor
twice the field of sorrow
after sleep, bath, and a glass
as Aquinas whispers, the things
we love tell us who we are.
Karen An-Hwei Lee, from Theories of the Soul (via lydianea)
(via awritersruminations)
23 hours ago
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