#homegoing
These are the books that keep me occupied at work, at the moment. We’ll be publishing Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing in the end of September, and it is a brilliant book!
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Queen of Soul
The Welsh Guards Band played “Respect” during the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace In honor of Aretha Franklin’s life and legacy.
“There should be no room in your life for regret. If I’m the moment of doing you felt clarity, you felt certainty, then why feel regret later?”
-Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
“Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves.”
-Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
“We believe the one who has power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history you must ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there you get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.”
- from HOMEGOING by Yaa Gyasi
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