Are you one of those book burners who wants to ban every book they don’t like, all to Save the Children?
“to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
“Living every day in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
“The Great Migration would not end until the 1970s, when the South began finally to change—the whites-only signs came down, the all-white schools opened up, and everyone could vote. By then nearly half of all black Americans—some forty-seven percent—would be living outside the South, compared to ten percent when the Migration began.”
― The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
― The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
“When I read, I could forget.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Karen’s 2025 Year in Books
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