The Media List
 |  "Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. They don't love your eyes; they'd just as soon pick em out. No more do they love the skin on your back. Yonder they flay it. And O my people they do not love your hands. Those they only use, tie, bind, chop off and leave empty. Love your hands! Love them. Raise them up and kiss them. Touch others with them, pat them together, stroke them on your face 'cause they don't love that either. You got to love it, you!" |
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 "There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were." |  "I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance." |
 "listen, woman, you not a noplace anonymous girl; mister with his hands on you, he got his hands on some damn body!" |  "Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me." |
 "I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young." |  "The devil never gave a gift for free." |
 "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." |  "And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins." |
2015 Selections
Fiction
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
The Coldest Winter Ever
Sista Souljah
Silver Sparrow
Tayari Jones
My Soul to Keep
Tananarive Due
Poetry
Wounded in the House of a Friend
Sonia Sanchez
Blessing the Boats
Lucille Clifton
Four Women
Nina Simone
Non-Fiction
Sister Outsider
Audre Lorde
All About Love
bell hooks