American - Activist | January 3, 2005 -
I go to Amazon to browse for things I can then go find at the mall. It's like window shopping online. I want to touch the things that I buy. I am the kid who still likes actual books, bookstores, and libraries.
Marley Dias
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Black girl stories aren't just for black girls: they're for everybody.
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I am slightly obsessed with beauty products.
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I wasn't seeing black girls in the books I was assigned to read at my school. I was tired of only reading about white boys and dogs and wanted to collect books featuring black girls.
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When I get lost in a book, it's just, like, magical!
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Social actions means that you find an issue in your community, and you create an initiative to solve that issue or to help people.
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I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main characters of our lives.
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Hillary Clinton is someone who's never waited around for someone else to do the hard work. She's been an organizer and a change-maker for her whole life, practically.
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I have role models, but I take the attributes of the people that I admire, and I use them to create my best self.
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I have had the same friends for a really long time, and I like them because they like some of the stuff I like, but they are also really different from me.
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If you like reading, you are allowed to like to dance and to like to sing and to like to act.
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In my class - in all fifth-grade classes - we were required to read 'classics,' books like 'Shiloh,' which is about a white boy and the dog he rescues. And 'Old Yeller,' which is about a white boy and the dog that rescues him. And 'Where the Red Fern Grows,' which is about a white boy and the two dogs he trains.
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