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From where we were now, running, looking at reality from this one point in time, it seemed as though the world had suddenly gone mad. Poisoning your own drinking water, changing the air so much the earth shook and melted and crumbled,
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“thirty years after Baldwin’s death we are still wrestling with the fact that so many Americans continue to hold the view that ours is a white nation.”
― Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
― Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
“Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.”
― Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
― Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
― Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
“Color,” as he wrote in 1963, “is not a human or personal reality; it is a political reality.”
― Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
― Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
“I barely knew I had skin before I met you.”
― The Paying Guests
― The Paying Guests
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
— 26937 members
— last activity 9 hours, 12 min ago
An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more
Retro Rereads
— 155 members
— last activity Oct 15, 2017 11:55AM
Retro Rereads is a 2017 Reading Challenge to go back to your favorite books from different points of your life and re-read them to see if they're stil ...more
The Ancient & Pre-Modern History Book Club
— 90 members
— last activity Oct 11, 2021 08:48PM
This is a group for books on history from the very ancient up to the early modern period. Yes, that is a wide and fairly amorphous period. We will ...more
LITTLE FREE LIBRARY GROUP
— 53 members
— last activity Nov 01, 2020 10:20AM
THIS GROUP IS TO TRACK AND SEE A BOOKS JOURNEY WITH THOSE WHO USE LITTLE FREE LIBRARIES. EVERYONE CAN ADD BOOKS AND SEE WHAT OTHERS ARE SHARING. BOOKS ...more
Karrie’s 2025 Year in Books
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