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I wrote this book because I have long suspected that the best Americans are not always famous. More than twenty years of research has confirmed my intuition. The best Americans are not the critics, they are the doers. They are the people
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“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
“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
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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
“Neal didn't take Georgie's breath away. Maybe the opposite. But that was okay--that was really good, actually, to be near someone who filled your lungs with air.”
― Landline
― Landline
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
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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
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— 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
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— 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
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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
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