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Started this in Paris so I’m logging it a bit late :D

« And if I can die having brought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help to destroy the racist cancer that is malignant in the body of America— then, all of the credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine »

HE’S IN BEIRUT SAYING THE WOMEN ARE BOLD AND LIBERATED LETS FUCKING GOOW

He’s in Mecca describing everything soo beautifully and the only thing he can bond over with the non english speakers there is Muhammad Ali 😭😭😭

Him being besties with Muhammad Ali makes sense but God how small was that community why does everyone know everyone

« He was ranting about what a "divisive demagogue" and what a "reverse racint" I was, I wan racking my head, to spear that fool, finally I held up my hand, and he stopped
"Do you know what white racists call black Ph.D'a?" He said something like,
"I believe that I happen not to be aware of that" you know, one of thea ultra-proper talking Negroes, And I laid the word down on him, loud!
"N*****!" »

« "I Have a Dream" speeches? The black masses in America were-and still are-living in a nightmare. »
Unprompted shots fired at Martin Luther King halfway through the book 😭😭😭

“My opponent flailed the air about the Ethiopians throwing rocks and spears at Italian airplanes, "proving" that compulsory military training was needed. I said the Ethiopians' black flesh had been spattered against trees by bombs the Pope in Rome had blessed, and the Ethiopians would have thrown even their bare bodies at the airplanes because they had seen that they were fighting the devil incarnate.”

“Seek peace but if anyone attacks you, we do not teach you to turn the other cheek.” Lolol

Fucking hell this man is in a CULT

Brother Malcolm I dont know how many “it was a different time” I still have in me 🫩

He’s making jokes about sitting on the back of the bus😭😭😭

“There was a foolish and yet delicious sense of knowing himself as an animal come from the forest, drawn by the fire. He was a thing of brush and liquid eye, of fur and muzzle and hoof, he was a thing of horn and blood that would smell like autumn if you bled it out on the ground.“

Somehow this is the most important book to read right now - unbelievably modern

TIIIINYY TIIIIMMM

Deciding to read this in french was definitely a choice

Charles Dickensindeher XDD

Most brutal time skip ever WHAATTT

Gorgeous prose gorgeous imagery we are soo back

Des réfugiés, à Calais, tentent de passer en Angleterre. Les passeurs exigent de grandes sommes. Mais rien n'arrête ces migrants, ils n'ont pas d'autre voie. On pourchasse les passeurs, comme les avorteuses il y a trente ans. On ne met pas en cause les lois qui les induisent. Et il doit bien y avoir parmi les passeurs d'immigrés, comme autrefois parmi les passeuses d'enfants, de plus réguliers que d'autres.

That character who’s only line in the book is to correct the narrator in the rudest way possible that no he isn’t english, he’s irish. And irish people speak their minds unlike the overly polite brits.

Author calling out Islamophobia in France in 1818 mmhmmm

The genesis metaphores are strong in this one

OF COURSE the creature only speaks in Shakespearean english

Narrator is actually getting his life together and i need him to keep at it

Irish moms 🤝 arab moms : taking unprescribed Valium to cope with the war

“May you be blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness that you gave to another lonely, grateful heart! My God! A whole minutes of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man’s life?”

Are they just having the same conversation over and over again?