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“Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“racial caste systems do not require racial hostility or overt bigotry to thrive. They need only racial indifference, as Martin Luther King Jr. warned more than forty-five years ago.”
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. I propose to take our countrymen’s claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
Jimena’s 2025 Year in Books
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159 friends
1,092 books
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218 books
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540 books
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438 books
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299 books
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933 books
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54 friends
220 books
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73 friends
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