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1947 - Refuses offer from Hollywood producer to film Native Son with character Bigger Thomas changed to a white man.

I'm forever going to be that weird ass English major who does better on math standardized tests than English ones, but that just goes to show how trustworthy those things are.

All crimes must be investigated, peace time or war time.

I'm adding to my already stipulation-laden currently reading shelf the goal to have at least one ponderously long tome going at all times. Plus, I might as well get through this, cause god knows when Mantel's bringing out the close of Cromwell's career.

Gotta love it when people you block still spew their way onto your dash.

The story was the price you paid for the rhythm.

In my dealing with whites I was conscious of the entirety of my relations with them, and they were conscious only of what was happening at a given moment.

I think about happiness. For me it was, primarily, a privileged way of apprehending the world; and if the world is changing to such a degree that it can no longer be apprehended in this fashion, then happiness loses its importance.

Oh my fucking god I just realized this is my third simultaneous autobiography read. What am I doing to myself.

And forever the beauty of young men seems to be set in smoke, however lustily they chase footballs, or drive cricket balls, dance, run, or stride along roads. Possibly they are soon to lose it.

We were never prepared to acknowledge the status which circumstances objectively assigned us.

I can't remember the last time, if there ever was one, I had two autobiographies going at once. Let's see how this goes.

How many more famous musicians need to kill themselves before neurotypicals start listening instead of institutionalizing.

The unresolved sexual tension is strong with this one.

Hey Woolf. Long time no see.

I'd love to write a paper on Faulkner's influence on Beauvoir.

Cursing myself for having passed by Oyeyemi's other works at past book sales. This is what I get for paying attention to ratings.

This is an ARC, so take everything I quote with a grain of salt.

When will my update feed be free of neurotypicals armchair diagnosing neuroatypicals. The world may never know.

If Irene Redfield's monosexual I'll eat my hat.

Ain't Richard Ford a treat: https://www.theguardian.com/books/boo...

P.S. I found out today that Marlon James is queer, so this and that article make him one of the coolest men around.

You're trying to reach progressive, humanitarian goals with a tool that isn't suited to the job. Who has humanitarian dreams?

Anyone have books that they read and reviewed a while back but still don't have any friends who've also read it? Mine's 'The Song of Everlasting Sorrow's by Wang Anyi.

What I lacked was the idea of 'situation', which alone allows one to make some concrete definition of human groups without enslaving them to a tireless and deterministic pattern.

I hate it when my brain keeps telling me I've been reading an author too much when in reality I haven't touched them since 2014.

Rest in peace, Nelsan Ellis.

I suppose 'An African in Greenland' made it into the NYRB and 'An African Student in China' by Emmanuel John Hevi didn't because communism, but that doesn't explain why I can't find the latter anywhere on Goodreads. Or maybe it does. What a pain.

[N]o matter what the intensity of his feelings or desires might be, he was not the sort of man who would for any reason give up one particle of his own good opinion of himself.

Here were no tatters and rags, no beggars. But, then, begging, she learned, was an offense punishable by law.

Tempted to wait on choosing my next book until I have tomorrow's book sale purchases in front of me.