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Reading Progress
May 25, 2012
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March 31, 2025
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Started Reading
April 1, 2025
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1.54%
"� I was determined to discover from the pages of my schoolbooks how to break the chains that bound me to my mother.�"
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6
April 1, 2025
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2.31%
"“I swear, I got the dumbest children in the world. Sometimes I wonder if all y'all belong to me."…Sometimes I even prayed there had been a mistake, and that somebody would come along and say,
"Rozelle Quinn, I believe this child belongs to me." Mama would push me into the arms of the stranger and say, "You're right.I knew all along that she was your child, but I loved her so I just couldn't bear to let her go.�"
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9
"Rozelle Quinn, I believe this child belongs to me." Mama would push me into the arms of the stranger and say, "You're right.I knew all along that she was your child, but I loved her so I just couldn't bear to let her go.�"
April 1, 2025
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4.87%
"Jr have Tangy a March 1954 Jet magazine to read and explain to Martha Jean"
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19
April 1, 2025
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9.74%
""Po' Mama," Tarabelle said in a voice void of sympathy. "She done had her whites, her Indians, and her coloreds. This one must be Chinese or something 'cause it sho don't wanna be born in this house.""
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38
April 1, 2025
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12.05%
"Rozelle keeping secrets from her kids (even their daddy’s identity) and Tara Belle keeping secrets from her siblings (like somehow knowing what a man’s ejaculating feels like…sad)."
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47
April 1, 2025
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13.33%
"Branded your child?! Rozelle and Tara Belle are Tangys biggest bullies (so far)!"
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52
April 1, 2025
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15.9%
""The best way to get them is through education," Junior countered. "What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred and ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?""
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62
April 1, 2025
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17.44%
"awww! that’s why Tarabelle is so angry! Her mama
is exploiting her, smh"
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68
is exploiting her, smh"
April 2, 2025
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23.85%
""All y'all gon' be here the rest of yo' life," she said. "Mama gon' keep y'all here making you be whatever she wants you to be, long as you bring money in this house. She tried to keep me here, but I musta took after my daddy, whoever he is, God bless him.
Mama had me screwing in every hayloft, field, and back room she could find. I never even knew what I was worth…I screwed my way right on outta Georgia.""
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Mama had me screwing in every hayloft, field, and back room she could find. I never even knew what I was worth…I screwed my way right on outta Georgia.""
April 2, 2025
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24.62%
"“Our mother stood at that rickety, old table, kneading guilt that she would later bake and feed to us in bite-size pieces. And I was determined to swallow mine without gagging or choking, although guilt has a stringy texture, like strands of hair in a bowl of Cream of Wheat.�"
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96
April 2, 2025
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26.92%
"“Sometimes I wanna see her, but I don't wanna go up to that house
'cause I know her daddy gon' be there asking me what I'm gon' do wit' my life—like I'm s'pose to know—like I got some choices in this world.""
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105
'cause I know her daddy gon' be there asking me what I'm gon' do wit' my life—like I'm s'pose to know—like I got some choices in this world.""
April 2, 2025
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29.23%
"pgs 114 - 115 are sad as ever.
domestic abuse abound from daddy to mama and daughter to mama
Miss Rosie’s well-known prostitution
devaluing education"
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114
domestic abuse abound from daddy to mama and daughter to mama
Miss Rosie’s well-known prostitution
devaluing education"
April 2, 2025
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30.77%
"“You gotta make a run wit' me tonight."
"No, Mama," Tarabelle begged. "Please! I'm tired.
God, look down on us. I am in a room where your daughters are wee They are moaning, and it is a most wretched sound. Can you it, Lord? Do something! I never want to shed another tear as long as I live."
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120
"No, Mama," Tarabelle begged. "Please! I'm tired.
God, look down on us. I am in a room where your daughters are wee They are moaning, and it is a most wretched sound. Can you it, Lord? Do something! I never want to shed another tear as long as I live."
April 2, 2025
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30.77%
""I'll go with you, Mama," I heard myself say, "I'm not tired. I'l go with you?
�
"Look here!" Mama said.
I glanced up, and she slapped my face so hard that I bit m tongue, and the blood coated my palate and rolled down my thro
"Who the hell do you think wants you?" she asked.
"Nobody, Mama," I answered truthfully. "Nobody.�"
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120
�
"Look here!" Mama said.
I glanced up, and she slapped my face so hard that I bit m tongue, and the blood coated my palate and rolled down my thro
"Who the hell do you think wants you?" she asked.
"Nobody, Mama," I answered truthfully. "Nobody.�"
April 2, 2025
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31.28%
"“Mama had always taught us that we were not to hit each other, and I wondered why she was exempt from that rule. Sometimes I believed she did not mean to hurt us, but could not help herself.
She was, after all, the same gentle woman who had once, long ago, taught us to love, and I had learned to love with every part of my being. My love for Martha Jean alone filled my heart to aching.�"
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She was, after all, the same gentle woman who had once, long ago, taught us to love, and I had learned to love with every part of my being. My love for Martha Jean alone filled my heart to aching.�"
April 4, 2025
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54.36%
"Something is seriously wrong with Rozelle. The cyclical, capricious and unapologetic abuse, manipulation, exploitation and selfishness is outright evil. Was she born from a rape assault?"
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212
April 4, 2025
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55.38%
"FINALLY somebody stood up to Rozelle & called her out on her hatred! s/o to Velman!"
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216
April 4, 2025
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57.44%
"I feel SO sorry for this entire family! Tarabelle has been going THROUGH it --a hangwire abortion, suicide ideation, grooming, rape, pimped out by her own mama, understandable anger, hints of jealousy, just plain lost!"
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224
April 4, 2025
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57.44%
"Tangy's innocence is gone just by hearing about Tara's abortion --
"Rapid puffs of breath escaped my mouth, and my heart pounded as though I had been running long an hard... People passed, spoke, and waved with no idea that innocence hhad sloughed from my body and lay in a heap at my feet.""
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224
"Rapid puffs of breath escaped my mouth, and my heart pounded as though I had been running long an hard... People passed, spoke, and waved with no idea that innocence hhad sloughed from my body and lay in a heap at my feet.""
April 4, 2025
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61.79%
"“Sometimes Mama acts like bugs are crawling on her.�
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“They ain’t bugs. They men�. there’s too many of em and they been crawling on her for too many years.�"
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241
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“They ain’t bugs. They men�. there’s too many of em and they been crawling on her for too many years.�"
