Sign in with Facebook
He was a man of black and white. And she was color. All the color he had.
Dheeba and 2 other people liked this
“Fate would not have the reputation it has if it simply did what it seemed it would do.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“Baldwin’s essays forced you to turn inward and confront whatever pain was there, and I did not want to do that. I damn sure didn’t know what to do with my pain philosophically.”
― 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
“Baldwin and King, no matter the temperamental distance between them, moved together as they struggled to make real the promise of American democracy. King was the preacher, Baldwin the poet—and, of course, the two are interchangeable.”
― 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
“Why wouldn’t you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. You said it until it ceased to have meaning. Why not? Of course, you goddamn did.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“I wanted to know whether you could ever fully know someone. If knowing how they were—how they moved and spoke and the faces they made and the things they tried not to look at—amounted to knowing them. Or if knowing things about them—where they’d been born, all the people they’d been, who they’d loved, the worlds they’d come from—added up to anything.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
The History Book Club
— 25903 members
— last activity 6 hours, 10 min ago
"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more
Ibrahim’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ibrahim’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,823 books
|
144 friends
545 books
|
138 friends
487 books
|
19 friends
337 books
|
6 friends
931 books
|
93 friends
2,715 books
|
235 friends
848 books
|
147 friends
30 books
|
21 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Classics, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, Science, and Spirituality
Polls voted on by Ibrahim
Lists liked by Ibrahim
