Sara Anselmo

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


Yesteryear
Sara Anselmo is currently reading
bookshelves: 2026, currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (30%)
3 hours, 7 min ago

 
Taiwan Travelogue
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 44 of 320)
Apr 15, 2026 01:39PM

 
It Came from the ...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
See all 4 books that Sara is reading…
Loading...
Yaa Gyasi
“The white man's god is just like the white man. He thinks he is the only god, just like the white man thinks he is the only man. But the only reason he is god instead of Nyame or Chukwu or whoever is because we let him be. We do not fight him. We do not even question him. The white man told us he was the way, and we said yes, but when has the white man ever told us something was good for us and tat thing was really good?”
Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi
“Originally, he'd wanted to focus his work on the convict leasing system that had stolen years off of his great-grandpa H's life, but the deeper into the research he got, the bigger the project got. How could he talk about Great-Grandpa H's story without also talking about his grandma Willie and the millions of other black people who had migrated north, fleeing Jim Crow? And if he mentioned the Great Migration, he'd have to talk about the cities that took that flock in. He'd have to talk about Harlem, And how could he talk about Harlem without mentioning his father's heroin addiction - the stints in prison, the criminal record? And if he was going to talk about heroin in Harlem in the '60s, wouldn't he also have to talk about crack everywhere in the '80s? And if he wrote about crack, he'd inevitably be writing, to, about the "war on drugs." And if he started talking about the war on drugs, he'd be talking about how nearly half of the black men he grew up with were on their way either into or out of what had become the harshest prison system in the world. And if he talked about why friends from his hood were doing five-year bids for possession of marijuana when nearly all the white people he'd gone to college with smoked it openly every day, he'd get so angry that he'd slam the research book on the table of the beautiful but deadly silent Lane Reading Room of Green Library of Stanford University. And if he slammed the book down, then everyone in the room would stare and all they would see would be his skin and his anger, and they'd think they knew something about him, and it would be the same something that had justified putting his great-grandpa H in prison, only it would be different too, less obvious than it once was.”
Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

Jean-Paul Sartre
“The existentialist, on the contrary, finds it extremely embarrassing that God does not exist, for there disappears with Him all possibility of finding values in an intelligible heaven. There can no longer be any good a priori, since there is no infinite and perfect consciousness to think it. It is nowhere written that “the good” exists, that one must be honest or must not lie, since we are now upon the plane where there are only men. Dostoevsky once wrote: “If God did not exist, everything would be permitted”; and that, for existentialism, is the starting point. Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon either within or outside himself. He discovers forthwith, that he is without excuse.”
Jean Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism

Yaa Gyasi
“You want to know what weakness is? Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves.”
Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

Eduardo Galeano
“The Latin American cause is about all a social cause: the rebirth of Latin America must start with the overthrow of its masters, country by country. We are entering times of rebellion and change. There are those who believe that destiny rests on the knees of the gods; but the truth is that it confronts the conscience of man with a burning challenge.”
Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

230714 Girls Against Book Club — 37 members — last activity Jun 18, 2018 06:09AM
Girls Against began as a campaign that aimed to establish a discussion of the issue of sexual assault at gigs and although this discussion has been fi ...more
year in books
Carina
994 books | 107 friends

Rafael ...
276 books | 77 friends

Ana Lobato
293 books | 54 friends

Camila ...
161 books | 33 friends

João Fr...
1,230 books | 204 friends

Mariana...
550 books | 52 friends

Laia Cano
342 books | 9 friends

Margarida
1,547 books | 97 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Sara

Lists liked by Sara