Kimberly

Kimberly’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (218)
currently-reading‎ (1)
read‎ (679)
did-not-finish‎ (26)
unfinished‎ (11)
owned-books‎ (220)

audiobooks‎ (202)
cbc-books-indigenous-writers‎ (29)
reading-women-challenge-2019‎ (17)
recommended-by-jen‎ (8)
books-i-want‎ (7)
an-evening-for-book-lovers‎ (6)

recommended-by-zaeem‎ (6)
climate-change‎ (5)
recommended-by-anita‎ (5)
recommended-by-melissa‎ (5)
recommended-by-nathan‎ (5)
reading-women-challenge-2020‎ (3)

recommended-by-caleb‎ (3)
recommended-by-richard‎ (3)
recommended-by-issa‎ (2)
recommended-by-ben‎ (1)
recommended-by-mom‎ (1)

Stats | More…

Kimberly is Currently Reading

Kimberly is currently reading

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

bookshelves: audiobooks, currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Aug 10, 2026 10:28AM

“White supremacists love what America used to be, even though America used to be--and still is--teeming with millions of struggling White people. White supremacists blame non-White people for the struggles of White people when any objective analysis of their plight primarily implicates the rich White Trumps they support.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

46 likes

“When black youth find it difficult or impossible to live up to these standards—or when they fail, stumble, and make mistakes, as all humans do—shame and blame is heaped upon them. If only they had made different choices, they’re told sternly, they wouldn’t be sitting in a jail cell; they’d be graduating from college. Never mind that white children on the other side of town who made precisely the same choices—often for less compelling reasons—are in fact going to college.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

5 likes

“Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.”
― Lady Gaga

tags: brick, dead, house, humor, lady-gaga, love

1173 likes

“Black people are apparently responsible for calming the fears of violent cops in the way women are supposedly responsible for calming the sexual desires of male rapists.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

124 likes

“Westley closed his eyes. There was pain coming and he had to be ready for it. He had to prepare his brain, he had to get his mind controlled and safe from their efforts, so that they could not break him. He would not let them break him. He would hold together against anything and all. If only they gave him sufficient time to make ready, he knew he could defeat pain. It turned out they gave him sufficient time (it was months before the Machine was ready).

But they broke him anyway.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

62 likes

More of Kimberly’s quotes…