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Kim Staley

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Kim is Currently Reading

Kim Staley is currently reading

Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life

by Kao Kalia Yang (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, biography, nonfiction, royal

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Jan 01, 2026 04:44PM

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Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World

by Stephen S. Hall

bookshelves: scibc-suggestion, animals, biology, nature, history, science, nonfiction, currently-reading

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Kim’s Quotes

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

tags: acceptance, friendship

5096 likes

“If you live in this system of white supremacy, you are either fighting the system of you are complicit. There is no neutrality to be had towards systems of injustice, it is not something you can just opt out of.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

tags: equality, fighting, injustice, pick-a-side, white-supremacy

94 likes

“If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in!
Come in!”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: dreamer, imagination, liar, make-believe, poetry, wisher, wishes

3786 likes

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
― Mary Wortley Montagu

tags: reading

958 likes

“We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.”
― bell hooks, Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism

tags: imperialism, patriarchy, white-supremacy

138 likes

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