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Literally Amanie

@literallyamanie

writer. lover of books. sharing parts of me through book reviews, writing excerpts, poetry and reflections.

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For The Guardian, I wrote about the homes of Black writers like Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Lucille Clifton and the urgency to preserve them lest their literary legacies be erased & forgotten forever. theguardian.com/culture/2025/j…

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They write their history down and you don't ask them nothing. You swallow it down even when it don't make sense. But as soon as Blackpeople start to talk, you want date and name and time and place as if you more interested in the scenery than in the story! - Salt, Earl Lovelace

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The Colonial government... had had opportunities to make restitution & apology that would restore value & dignity & respect to our community & people. Each time they had backed away, out of fear, out of arrogance. The sadness was that the National Party had done no better - Salt

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"grok, is it true?" asks the mind that once knew how to question, to doubt, to think its way out now outsourced to code that rewrites its own road training truth on its lies while cognition just dies

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Thank you so much @bklyncbeanlitfest for including HOW TO BE UNMOTHERED: a Trinidadian memoir in this year’s celebration of Caribbean literature!! 🥳 In conversation with Niama Sandy Cocktail reception to follow 🍹 Wed 20th August Greenlight Bookstore Free. Rsvp at eventbrite.

Thank you so much @bklyncbeanlitfest for including HOW TO BE UNMOTHERED: a Trinidadian memoir in this year’s celebration of Caribbean literature!! 🥳

In conversation with Niama Sandy
Cocktail reception to follow 🍹
Wed 20th August <a href="/greenlightbklyn/">Greenlight Bookstore</a> 

Free. Rsvp at eventbrite.
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So you will have to know something about the time and place where I came from, in order that you may interpret the incidents and direction of my life. - Dust Tracks on a Road, Zora Neale Hurston

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I will always love good fiction. But I'm in a place where I'm really enjoying essays, biographies etc I think it's because I'm at a juncture where I'm starting to take myself more seriously as a writer. I want that more intimate insight into the lives, work & thoughts of my favs