LaNeida

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about LaNeida.

https://www.goodreads.com/jerricalblu5

Eruption
LaNeida is currently reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Loading...
Jennifer Crusie
“Nobody in my life has ever known me the way you do. Nobody in my life has ever made me feel as good as you do. You know me, you know everything about me, and when you leave me, you’re going to be leaving the real me, the me nobody else has ever seen, that’s who you’re going to be rejecting.”
Jennifer Crusie, Bet Me

George R.R. Martin
“Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.”
George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“White people desperately want to believe that only the lonely, isolated “whites only” club members are racist. This is why the word racist offends “nice white people” so deeply. It challenges their self-identification as good people. Sadly, most white people are more worried about being called racist than about whether or not their actions are in fact racist or harmful.”
Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Mohsin Hamid
“We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.”
Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

“But I am not impressed with America’s progress. I am not impressed that slavery was abolished or that Jim Crow ended. I feel no need to pat America on its back for these “achievements.” This is how it always should have been. Many call it progress, but I do not consider it praiseworthy that only within the last generation did America reach the baseline for human decency. As comedian Chris Rock says, I suppose these things were progress for white people, but damn. I hope there is progress I can sincerely applaud on the horizon. Because the extrajudicial killing of Black people is still too familiar. Because the racist rhetoric that Black people are lazier, more criminal, more undeserving than white people is still too familiar. Because the locking up of a disproportionate number of Black bodies is still too familiar. Because the beating of Black people in the streets is still too familiar. History is collapsing on itself once again.”
Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

year in books
Jasmine...
263 books | 160 friends

Maria L...
532 books | 67 friends

Marisol
1,793 books | 50 friends

cheryl
27 books | 3 friends

Brittan...
532 books | 77 friends

Ruth
533 books | 98 friends

Alex
240 books | 110 friends

Carolanne
859 books | 67 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by LaNeida

Lists liked by LaNeida