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Tom’s good-ass-books shelf

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Inventing Reality by Michael Parenti Doppelganger by Naomi Klein Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy Raise Your Soul by Yanis Varoufakis Less Is More by Jason Hickel
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James Baldwin
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”
― James Baldwin
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James Baldwin
“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”
― James Baldwin
tags: artists, exposing, love, lovers, sharing, truth
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Beloved by Toni MorrisonPerfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-KurdGo Tell It on the Mountain by James BaldwinSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
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