Thomas Schwartz

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Thomas is Currently Reading

Thomas Schwartz is currently reading

Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants

by Phil Tiemeyer

bookshelves: currently-reading, queer-historiography, history-of-aids

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Jul 08, 2026 12:36PM

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Race and Religion Among the Chosen People of Crown Heights

by Henry Goldschmidt

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Apr 19, 2026 09:10PM

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Fidel Castro Reader

by David Deutschmann

bookshelves: currently-reading, cuba, anti-imperialism

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Mar 25, 2026 09:47AM

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Thomas’s Quotes

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

tags: burdens, empowerment, flying, freedom, unburdening, weight

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“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

tags: drinking, relationships, women

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“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

tags: inspirational

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“You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

tags: love, self-worth, women

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