Rupi Kaur

“"Feminist Theory: From Margin To Center" by bell hooks # bell hooks is my favorite author. This book is definitely a mustread for any one interested in better understanding feminism. # Initially, my understanding…”

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“Anne Sexton's The Awful Rowing Toward God (in The Complete Poems) shaped my entire internal dialogue about faith and my desire to make sense of the world around me. Sexton captures the loneliness of our internal struggles with even more elegance and pain than Kierkegaard, and the absurdity of our inner life with even more irony and wit than Beckett. The Awful Rowing Toward God is an examination of the deepest corners of the human heart, and I will never forget it. Not a month goes by that I do not recall the last half of "Rowing":”

“The author uses language that is very, very rich and colorful. You can really immerse yourself into that world and kind of get a sense of what things were like, at that time.”

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“Zora Neale Hurston was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance movement and a fighter for the rights of AfricanAmericans. Like so many, I was profoundly impacted by her novel Their Eyes were Watching God, one of the most important books of the 20th century.”