Julia was always seen as the “black sheep” of her family, looked down upon for not being like her older sister Olga. So when she is expected to fill the very small and perfect shoes Olga left behind after passing away, she struggles to keep up.
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“I am happy and mixed up, full and empty, with what’s right and what’s gone.” As a book teaching good morals to children, this line can be relatable to adult readers too.
In her memoir, F*ck Your Diet: And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me, Chloé Hilliard shares her life experiences growing up as a “Fat” Black woman in 1990s–2000s Brooklyn and embraces her natural body.
Fear these streets no longer. We belong in them just as everyone else does.
What would you do if you were approached by the devil with a deal that gets you more time to live?
This story shows the stages of dealing with something—from shock to acceptance, or shock to denial.
“Men Who Punched Me in the Face,” follows Sandra Ortiz’s journey with the men in her life. Each is a different story with the same ending.
Angelou’s courageous, incredible poem celebrates the bravery within all of us, young and eldest alike.
Life comes with struggles, different experiences for everyone, but milk and honey relates to everyone, the traumatized, the ones in love, the heartbroken, and those who are learning to love themselves and heal from all they faced.
Two sides, one filled with guilt, loneliness and sorrow. The other filled with confusion, anger, and no remorse. One question: “Who is the TRUE victim in the plot?”
My tenth-grade English teacher once said that a voracious reader is someone who reads while brushing their teeth, and that more or less describes what I was like then.
I’ve been known to miss my stop on occasion!
“A Train at the IND Chambers Street Subway Station” by Bebo2good1 via Wikimedia Commons is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
