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Rebecca Skloot
“Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campus—and at the very same time—that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.”
Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Jim Fergus
“can’t help but think once again what a foolish, loutish creature is man. Is there another on earth that kills for the pure joy of it?”
Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

Max Nowaz
“Being magnanimous in victory usually worked, but to keep abreast of the situation he had to 
pump the girl for all she knew. Was there a pang of remorse for his actions in his mind? 
Possibly, but what choice did he have? If he wanted to survive, he had no room for weakness.”
Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

Azar Nafisi
“The most important result of the encounter [in the preceding anecdote] is the scholar's startling discovery of the roundness of the earth . . . Instinctively realizing the connection between the foreigner's presence, the roundness of the earth, and future changes and upheavals, he finally announces, "Yes, the earth is round, the women will start to think, and as soon as they begin to think, they will become shameless.”
Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About

Charles Bukowski
“‎"she’ mad but she’
magic. there’ no lie in her fire.”
Charles Bukowski

year in books
Emil Ra...
190 books | 65 friends

Gus Tug...
226 books | 20 friends

Kristan...
191 books | 21 friends

Colton ...
153 books | 41 friends

Sharron...
534 books | 74 friends



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