The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel before them – Things Fall Apart. – Thoughts – Things Fall Apart is one of those books that you read as a child that changed your life, especially if you read it in High School and had an amazing English…
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Inspiration: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.” ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Inspiration – Neil Gaiman
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.” ― Neil Gaiman, A Game of…
This week in books
I was able to go to Junot Diaz and Zadie Smith’s book signung events this week, both at Barnes and Noble and I have to say that I’m ridiculously inspired. I enjoy authors that write stories about people who I can see some of myself in or recognize in it, traits of someo ne I…