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“For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.”
― White Teeth
― White Teeth
“Wherever there is a war and painful partition, there will be no winners, human or otherwise.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. You would be frightened because it is out of the order of nature. Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one's sense of one's own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundation.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
Aimee’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Aimee’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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970 books
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50 books
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91 books
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