Ray Ray

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


Loading...
Audre Lorde
“How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live
unblinded?
How much of this pain
can I use?”
Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Howard Zinn
“I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars of the system. I don’t want to romanticize them. But I do remember (in rough paraphrase) a statement I once read: “The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don’t listen to it, you will never know what justice is.”
Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

Toni Morrison
“The death of self-esteem can occur quickly, easily in children, before their ego has “legs,” so to speak. Couple the vulnerability of youth with indifferent parents, dismissive adults, and a world, which, in its language, laws, and images, re-enforces despair, and the journey to destruction is sealed.”
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

Octavia E. Butler
“I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.”
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

year in books
Jared Walz
1,362 books | 43 friends

Damian
301 books | 12 friends

Darci
1,914 books | 92 friends

Colin
3,889 books | 8 friends

Rylie P...
391 books | 13 friends

Josie N...
22 books | 20 friends

Alexandra
297 books | 21 friends

Tina
4 books | 3 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Ray

Lists liked by Ray