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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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in Baltimore, The United States
September 30, 1975
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The Man Who Freed Me From Cant
I always find it hard to list the books that have influenced me the most. Memory is tricky, and a work can assert its influences over my thinking long after I’ve forgotten its particular details, or even its title. Moreover, people who set as their job the task of judging what others do, and why, are not always reliable when turning the lens upon themselves. And then there’s the fact that any list
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Between the World and Me
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2015
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The Water Dancer
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2019
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66 editions
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
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2017
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25 editions
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Black Panther, Vol. 1: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book One
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2016
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The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
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2008
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27 editions
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Black Panther (2016-2008) #1
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2016
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Black Panther, Vol. 2: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book Two
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2017
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Black Panther, Vol. 3: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book Three
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Captain America, Vol. 1: Winter in America
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Black Panther, Vol. 4: Avengers of the New World, Part One
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“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
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“But race is the child of racism, not the father. And the process of naming “the people” has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy. Difference in hue and hair is old. But the belief in the preeminence of hue and hair, the notion that these factors can correctly organize a society and that they signify deeper attributes, which are indelible—this is the new idea at the heart of these new people who have been brought up hopelessly, tragically, deceitfully, to believe that they are white.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
Polls
What book would you like to read for our April 2023 Group Read? The theme is Habitat.
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, by Ed Yong
Nonfiction, Nature
Nonfiction, Nature
103 total votes
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| Black Coffee: 2014 New to You! Challenge | 37 | 109 | Dec 19, 2014 03:08PM | |
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| The Challenge Fac...: Team ~ Sleeping Beauty | 879 | 107 | Aug 27, 2015 07:24AM | |
| Queereaders: August 2015 - What are you reading? (no book covers) | 58 | 35 | Aug 30, 2015 09:48AM | |
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