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      <image:title>Blog - 10 Books By Black Women Authors You Should Be Reading - “That was the thrill of youth, the idea that you could be anyone. That was what had captured her in the charm shop, all those years ago. Then adulthood came, your choices solidifying, and you realize that everything you are had been set in motion years before. The rest was aftermath.”</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - 10 Books By Black Women Authors You Should Be Reading - “I want to tell her that God is not a cement building of stones and sand. That God is not for all that putting inside a house and locking Him there. I want her to know that the only way to know if a person find God and keep Him in their heart is to check how the person is treating other people, if he treats people like Jesus says--with love, patience, kindness, and forgiveness.”</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - 10 Books By Black Women Authors You Should Be Reading - “Home ain't always about a place. The house I grew up in is gone, ain't nothin' but a field and some woods but even if the house was still there - it ain't about that. I don't know. Home is about the earth. Whether the earth open up to you. Whether it pull you so close the space between you and it melt and y’all one and it beats like your heart. Same time.”</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - 10 Books By Black Women Authors You Should Be Reading - “But this what loss has taught me of love. Our house isn't simply empty, our home has been emptied. Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it's gone, nothing is whole again.”</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - 120 Years of Poetry: 16 Influential Black Women Poets From Then to Now - “Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, ‘Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night. ’ You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.”</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - 120 Years of Poetry: 16 Influential Black Women Poets From Then to Now - “Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.”</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - 120 Years of Poetry: 16 Influential Black Women Poets From Then to Now - “For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.”</image:title>
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      <image:caption>— Sonia Sanchez</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - 120 Years of Poetry: 16 Influential Black Women Poets From Then to Now - “I don’t write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions.”</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - 120 Years of Poetry: 16 Influential Black Women Poets From Then to Now - “Perhaps this is how racism feels no matter the context—randomly the rules everyone else gets to play by no longer apply to you, and to call this out by calling out “I swear to God!” is to be called insane, crass, crazy. Bad sportsmanship.”</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - 120 Years of Poetry: 16 Influential Black Women Poets From Then to Now - “Once upon a time, a woman told this to her daughter: Save yourself. The girl didn’t think to ask for what? She looked into her mother’s face and answered Yes. Years later, alone in the room where she lives, The daughter listens to the life she’s been saved from: Evening patter. Summer laughter. Young bodies Racing into the unmitigated happiness of danger.”</image:title>
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