Discover new books on Goodreads

Meet your next favorite book

405 ratings (3.72 avg)
259 reviews

Shila Iris

Add friend

http://afrikanessence.org

https://www.goodreads.com/shilairis

Shila Iris’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (496)
currently-reading‎ (12)
read‎ (431)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
coffeetable‎ (6)

art‎ (4)
black-studies‎ (3)
afrikan-world-history‎ (2)
bullshit‎ (2)
maybe‎ (2)

american-history‎ (1)
career‎ (1)
collectors-items‎ (1)
collectors-out-of-print‎ (1)
health‎ (1)

history‎ (1)
maybe-i-ll-read-it‎ (1)
world-history‎ (1)
dope-book-covers‎ (0)

Stats | More…

Shila Iris is Currently Reading

Shila Iris is currently reading

Women Who Run With the Wolves

by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

progress:

(page 108 of 537)
— Mar 06, 2025 09:15PM

Jan 23, 2025 06:07PM

Shila Iris is currently reading

Propolis Nature's Most Powerful Infection Fighter

by Terry Lemerond

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Apr 24, 2024 05:43AM

Shila Iris is currently reading

Remembering the Dismembered Continent

by Ayi Kwei Armah

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Oct 12, 2023 03:56PM

See all 12 books that Shila Iris is reading…

Shila Iris’s Quotes

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Rumi

3826 likes

“The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinion for or against. The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind.”
― Sengstan, Hsin Hsin Ming

tags: wisdom, zen

105 likes

“Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.”
― Kwame Nkrumah

31 likes

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus

4571 likes

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering

7919 likes

More of Shila Iris’s quotes…

recent posts
Shila Iris’s Groups

Goodreads Librarians Group — 348080 members — last activity 0 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

Black Coffee — 3127 members — last activity Nov 03, 2026 08:45AM
This group focuses on books written by or about black people from all continents in many different genres though we focus on historical fiction and cl ...more

Columbus Ohio Readers — 2 members — last activity Jul 04, 2018 09:16PM
Non-fiction readers

Afro Book Club — 824 members — last activity Oct 18, 2026 11:07AM
An international reading club appreciating books by authors of African descent in the continent and in the diaspora.

¡ POETRY ! — 22484 members — last activity Oct 27, 2026 04:03PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

More of Shila Iris’s groups…