Quote #1
Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Quote #2
There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.
― bell hooks, Killing Rage: Ending Racism
Quote #3
If we are truly a great nation, the truth cannot destroy us.
― Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story
Quote #4
The world may be mean, but people don’t have to be, not if they refuse.
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad: A Novel
Quote #5
We cannot love ‘our people’ unless we love each of us ourselves, unless I love each piece of myself, those I wish to keep and those I wish to change—for survival is the ability to encompass difference, to encompass change without destruction.
― Audre Lorde, The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
See Also
- Article: Book Club Titles for Black History Month
- Book club sets by Black authors from around the world (catalog list).
- See all Quotation Canapés | About this series.
- All the titles listed are in the Colorado Book Club Resource collection (each set is 8+ copies) and made available to book clubs statewide, thanks to participation from libraries. Find out more!
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