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From this point on, I knew, I wanted to curate this story standing on the premise that the lives and legacies of Black men, like my father, cannot be reduced to the awful shit white men do to them. That the voices of Black women like Opal
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“For the greatest crime of the poor in the eyes of the wealthy has always been to strike back. To fail to suffer in silence and instead disrupt their lives and their fantasies of a compassionate society that coincidentally set them on top. To say no.”
― The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
― The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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Ali’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ali’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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451 books
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2,864 books
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816 books
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1,192 books
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