7 Top african american books like The Sea Birds Are Still Alive by Toni Cade Bambara

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Similar categories in Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

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"You can't drive yourself sane."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"Memory is a tough place. You were there."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

Similar categories in Lorrie Moore's Birds of America: Stories book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

• short stories
• fiction

"I would be a genius now,"

-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories

"This is a political New Year's Eve,"

-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories

"Talent. I don't have talent. I have willingness."

-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories

"don’t mistake a lack of sophistication for sweetness"

-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories

Similar categories in Audre Lorde's The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback) book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

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"[…] your smile has been to war"

-Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)

"I have died too many deaths that were not mine."

-Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)

"Our labor has become more important than our silence."

-Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)

"and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive"

-Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)

Similar categories in Kathleen Collins's Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

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• african american
• fiction

"The South must be a terrible place."

-Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

"Louise lives on excellent terms with her solitude."

-Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

"Is it possible to imagine any greater amputation, any greater karmic debt, than reincarnation as a Negro?"

-Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

"I was never a pleasure to have around ... too moody ... an intimidating nuisance flyleafing his way across time on a whim, any old whim ..."

-Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

Similar categories in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

• novels
• african american
• fiction

"When I discover who I am, I’ll be free."

-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

"You're very insistent, but I'm very busy."

-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

"I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge."

-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

"They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him"

-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

Similar categories in Doris Lessing's The Kreutzer Sonata book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

• novels
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"In a large city the unhappy feel their sadness less acutely."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"Удивительное дело, какая полная бывает иллюзия того, что красота есть добро."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

Similar categories in Bobbie Ann Mason's Shiloh and Other Stories book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

• short stories
• fiction

Similar categories in Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1) book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

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• fiction

Similar categories in Toni Morrison's A Mercy book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

• african american
• fiction

Similar categories in Sarah Waters's Tipping the Velvet book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

• fiction

"clad not exactly as a boy but, rather confusingly, as the boy I would have been, had I been more of a girl"

-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

"I knew that Kitty and I felt just the same- only, of course, about different things. I should have remembered this, later."

-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

"Tricky was a plain-faced man with a very handsome voice - a voice like the sound of a clarinet, at once liquid and penetrating, and lovely to listen to."

-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

"With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk."

-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

Similar categories in Hope Jahren's Lab Girl book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

Similar categories in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

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• fiction

"vomiting the crying"

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"But peace is my heart: I know it is."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

Similar categories in Renata Adler's Speedboat book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's Antarctica book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

• short stories
• fiction

"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

Similar categories in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The House of the Dead book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

Similar categories in Henry Green's Living book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

Similar categories in Elaine Hsieh Chou's Disorientation book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

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• fiction

"Never apologize, Ingrid. Especially not when it concerns a man."

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

"She'd be split apart, never certain if the submissive and docile figure in the mirror was a reflection of who she really was, or the ghostly effect of someone telling her her entire life: this is who…"

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

"For once in her life, she wanted to be selfishly and deliciously lazy. To embody the most abhorred word of her generation: unproductive. She, yes she, wanted to be the person who walks away as a car …"

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

"Though it was a little shabby and could do with more frequent dusting, sudents flocked to the café for the worn-in armchairs and couches, free wi-fi and cheap coffee. Ingrid particularly liked the to…"

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

Similar categories in Hiroko Oyamada's The Hole book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

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• fiction

"I moved out here with my husband."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole

"It's just, families are strange things, aren't they? You have this couple: one man, one woman. A male and a female, if you will. They mate, and why? To leave children behind. And what are the childre…"

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole

"Abrí la ventana y oí a las cigarras cantar. No sé si era porque estaba en el campo y había muchos árboles o por la influencia del clima de ese año, pero nunca las había oído con tanta intensidad. Era…"

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole

Similar categories in Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

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• fiction

"Couldn't he see her arms all full of the sapphires of the instant?"

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"The Flat Earth Society announced it had members all over the globe."

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"Every fiber in her being strained. She was trying to hate the police."

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"What do you mean you've been spying on me, with this thing in my hand that is an eye?"

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

Similar categories in Zadie Smith's The Fraud book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

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• fiction

"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

Similar categories in Chris van Tulleken's Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

Similar categories in Miriam Toews's Women Talking book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

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"All we women have are our dreams – so of course we are dreamers."

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

"Doubt and uncertainty and questioning are inextricably bound together with faith"

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

"There must be satisfaction gained in accurately naming the thing that torments you."

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

"Perhaps all of us are crazy, Ona says. Of course we're all crazy, says Mejal. How can we not be?"

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

Similar categories in Anthony Veasna So's Afterparties book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

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• fiction

"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"

-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties

Similar categories in John Vaillant's Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

Similar categories in Deesha Philyaw's The Secret Lives of Church Ladies book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

• short stories
• african american
• fiction

"Careful you go looking for something, you just might find it."

-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

"The Bible is the inerrant word of God,' Eula whispers, as defiantly as a whisper can be. 'And you only believe that because of how another group of men interpret the first group of men. People say yo…"

-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

"You chide yourself for walking too far ahead, for regressing into 80s song lyrics territory so soon. But then he says, "The supermassive black hole at the center of the milky way recently sparked 75 …"

-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

Similar categories in Helen DeWitt's The English Understand Wool book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

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• short stories
• fiction

Similar categories in Ross Gay's Inciting Joy: Essays book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

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"And when we catch the grave light shimmering from the tethers between us when it happens, our dying again and again in each other's presence, this falling together, it is called, this holding each ot…"

-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays

"But when we allow and expect each other to change and, even more to the point, when we witness the learning, the changing, the grieving, with curiosity and patience and care and love; when we make ro…"

-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays

Similar categories in Kikuko Tsumura's There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

• novels
• fiction

"Although I was also aware that in a workplace context, people could become bad sorts as and when the situation required, so maybe it was more accurate to say he wasn't always a bad sort."

-Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

Similar categories in Hiroko Oyamada's The Factory book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

• novels
• fiction

"As I opened the basement-level door, I thought I could smell birds."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory

"I didn’t have to answer any weird questions about what I was reading, or hear anyone’s thoughts about which 7-Eleven bento they liked best."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory

"All I could see was a meaningless arrangement of squiggles and dots, symbols and patterns, running on endlessly. Words are such unstable things."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory

"Life has nothing to do with work and work has no real bearing on life. I used to think they were connected, but now I can see there’s just no way."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory

Similar categories in Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive book and Toni Cade Bambara's The Sea Birds Are Still Alive

• novels
• short stories
• african american
• fiction