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“So much of the story we tell ourselves about history is really the story that we tell about ourselves, about our mothers and our fathers and their mothers and their fathers, as far back as our lineages will take us. Throughout our lives we are told certain stories and they are stories that we choose to believe -- stories that become in our identities in ways we are not always fully cognizant of”
― How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
― How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
“Our words, like our hearts, are weapons still hot from the forging, beating themselves into new shapes each time we swing them.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“I know that I stopped thinking about extreme grief as the sole vehicle for great art when the grief started to take people with it. And I get it. The tortured artist is the artist that gets remembered for all time, particularly if they if they either perish or overcome. But the truth is that so many of us are stuck in the middle. So many of us begin tortured and end tortured, with only brief bursts of light in between, and I'd rather have average art and survival than miracles that come at the cost of someone's life.”
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
“I have remained here because of my comfort with the darkness I know and my fear of the darkness I do not.”
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
“Most of us had been involved for many years in Palestine solidarity work, but we were all thoroughly shocked to discover that the repression associated with Israeli settler colonialism was so evident and so blatant. The Israeli military made no attempt to conceal or even
mitigate the character of the violence they inflicted on the Palestinian people.
Gun-carrying military men and women—many extremely young—were everywhere. The wall, the concrete, the razor wire everywhere conveyed the impression that we were in prison. Before Palestinians are even arrested, they are already in prison. One misstep and one can be arrested and hauled off to prison;
one can be transferred from an open-air prison to a closed prison.”
― Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
mitigate the character of the violence they inflicted on the Palestinian people.
Gun-carrying military men and women—many extremely young—were everywhere. The wall, the concrete, the razor wire everywhere conveyed the impression that we were in prison. Before Palestinians are even arrested, they are already in prison. One misstep and one can be arrested and hauled off to prison;
one can be transferred from an open-air prison to a closed prison.”
― Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Katie’s 2025 Year in Books
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990 books
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477 books
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595 books
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140 books
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2,373 books
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750 books
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