Books by Black Authors to Add to Your Shelf
Amplify black voices.
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
I’ve been seeing quotes from pioneering activist Angela Davis plastered all across my social media these past few days – but there is far more to be learned from the Black Power icon than can be contained in an Instagram post.
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by
Reni Eddo-Lodge
The fragility of whiteness and the insidious nature of white privilege has never been limited to the Southern Belles of the United States. “living a life oblivious to the fact that their skin colour is the norm and all others deviate from it.” Racial bias clouds systems globally.
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Read Baldwin for uni. Put Baldwin on this list.
“If we – and I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of others – do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world.”
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece that is a testament to the power of the Traumatic Novel. A lesson in radical empathy. Beautiful.
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde
A compilation of speeches, letters and writings from the self-proclaimed “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet” which introduces you to the shackles of revolution.
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. And I am not free as long as one person of colour remains chained. Nor is any one of you.”
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