1. "We are the earth, the land. The tongue that speaks and trips on the names of the dead as it dares to tell these stories of a woman's line. Her people and her dirt, her trees, her water." ~ The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
2. "When gods became bored in heaven they walked among mortals." ~ The Son of Mr. Suleman by Eric Jerome Dickey
3. "To Black kids everywhere: your stories, your joy, your love, and your lives matter. You are a light in the dark." ~ Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk & Nicola Yoon
4. "I saw my mother raise a man from the dead." ~ Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge
5. "You probably just picked up this book thinking, What the shit is this all about?" ~ Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson
6. "When I came to, breaching that little-understood divide between the murky depths of insentience and the bright conscious world, the first thing I became aware of was my tongue." ~ Unthinkable by Brad Parks
7. "You see it all the time on television. There's a knock at the front door. And, on the other side, someone is waiting to tell you the news that changes everything." ~ The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
8. "He put his foot in those greens." ~ Body and Soul Food by Abby Collette
9. "When people say 'terminal', I think of the airport." ~ The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
10. "The barbershop was strangely quiet. Only the dull buzz of clippers shearing soft scalps." ~ Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
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