‘The things you worry about the most are things you can’t control’ – Samora
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Book Club Tuesdays: Lessons in Chemistry
‘Courage is the root of change – and change is what we’re chemically designed to do’ Elizabeth Zott
(more…)Book Club Tuesdays: An American Marriage
‘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.’
(more…)Book Club Tuesdays: Honey & Spice
‘Sometimes beautiful things get messy. Mess is okay.’ Kiki Banjo
(more…)Book Club Tuesdays: The Blessed Girl
‘Marilyn Monroe was the original blessee – you can quote me on that’ – Bontle
(more…)Book Club Tuesdays: Misfits
‘Over time some of us have adopted techniques to turn our feeling of alienation into humor’ Michaela Coel
(more…)Book Club Tuesdays: 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange World
‘Grief is a swallow. One day you wake up and you think it’s gone, but it’s only migrated to some other place, warming its feathers. Sooner or later, it will return and perch in your heart again.’ Kameel Effendi
(more…)Book Club Tuesdays: Travelling While Black
‘Travel is not migration. Travel is merely a small dose of what is experienced by those who leave, knowing they can never go back.’ Nanjala Nyabola
(more…)Book Club Tuesdays: A Promised Land
‘To be known. To be heard. To have one’s unique identity recognized and seen as worthy. It was a universal human desire’ Barack Obama
Book Club Tuesdays: The First Woman
‘Because only a woman knows how to love a woman properly.’ Kirabo Nnamiiro