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“I've traveled. All over. I've never seen anything like you. How could anything be put together like you? Do you know how beautiful you are? Have you looked at yourself?'
'I'm looking now.”
― Paradise
'I'm looking now.”
― Paradise
“Instead of involving themselves in an all-out attempt to stamp out racism from their white society, liberals waste a lot of time trying to prove to as many blacks as they can find that they are liberal.”
― I Write What I Like: Selected Writings
― I Write What I Like: Selected Writings
“You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.”
― Notes of a Native Son
― Notes of a Native Son
“Bless all the women of this world who nurture our heritage while too many man rush off to kill for ideals that might now be deeply and personally held, but will often be viewed as repugnant by later generations.”
― I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History
― I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History
“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man, it has created a new white man, too. . .the history of the American Negro problem is not merely shameful, it is also something of an achievement. For even when the worst has been said, it must also be added that the perpetual challenge posed by this problem was always, somehow, perpetually met. . . This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.”
― Notes of a Native Son
― Notes of a Native Son
Victoria’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Victoria’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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150 friends
609 books
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52 friends
490 books
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99 books
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39 friends
756 books
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175 friends
147 books
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20 friends
64 books
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346 friends
7 books
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510 friends
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