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Amina is Currently Reading

Amina Rayan is currently reading

Giovanni’s Room

by James Baldwin

bookshelves: 1001-books, currently-reading

read in January 2016

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Amina Rayan said: " Wow, Giovanni's Room was pure magic. Beautifully written, beautiful story, everything was beautiful. His ability to capture, describe and portray characters and situations blew my mind! I cant wait to read more by baldwin, what a gifted, brilliant ma ...more "

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Sep 01, 2025 12:56AM · see review

Amina’s Quotes

“The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

tags: okonwo, things-fall-apart

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“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: labels

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“Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

tags: alienation, laziness, life

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“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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“As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: racism, respect

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