i want this sooo bad!

The book, published by Duke University Press and due out Oct. 15, 2010, includes The Bronx is Next (1968), Sister Son/ji (1969) and Sanchez's never-before-published dramas, I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and 2X2. Like her poetry, the plays examine the racism and sexism she experienced as a young writer during the Black Power movement. The book also includes three essays in which Sanchez reflects on her art and her lifetime of social activism.

Ellington Was Not a Street

Ellington Was Not a Street (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner)
Author: Ntozake Shange, Kadir Nelson
KADIR NELSON IS AN AMAZING ARTIST YOU SHLD CHK HIM OUT. I DID NOT KNOW HE DID A CHILDRENS BOOK WITH NTOZAKE SHANGE. WOW. AND WOW AGAIN

Anton Chekhov

in your books I have drunk fragrant wine, I have sung songs, I have hunted stags and wild boars in the forests, have loved women … Beauties as ethereal as clouds, created by the magic of your poets and geniuses, have visited me at night, and have whispered in my ears wonderful tales that have set my brain in a whirl. In your books I have climbed to the peaks of Elburz and Mont Blanc, and from there I have seen the sun rise and have watched it at evening flood the sky, the ocean, and the mountain-tops with gold and crimson. I have watched from there the lightning flashing over my head and cleaving the storm-clouds. I have seen green forests, fields, rivers, lakes, towns. I have heard the singing of the sirens, and the strains of the shepherds’ pipes; I have touched the wings of comely devils who flew down to converse with me of God … In your books I have flung myself into the bottomless pit, performed miracles, slain, burned towns, preached new religions, conquered whole kingdoms…” — Anton Chekhov, The Bet

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, Friedrich Nietzsche
i want to read this oh so!

15 books by Alexia C.

15 books via my homegirl Alexia..(this is interesting)

1. Tales of Earthsea- Ursula LeGuin
2. Lilith's Brood- Octavia Butler
3. Parable of the Sower- Octavia Butler
4. The Dispossessed- Ursula LeGuin
5. Possessing the Secret of Joy- Alice Walker
6. Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
7. Imajica- Clive Barker
8. The Wheel of Time series- Robert Jordan
9. Fast Food Nation- Eric Schlosser
10. Bunnicula: The Celery Stalks at Midnight- James and Deborah Howe
11. Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem- bell hooks
12. The Eye of the Dragon- Stephen King
13. Song of Solomon- Toni Morrison
14. The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
15. The Mists of Avalon- Marion Zimmer Bradley

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Books I want #2

“Dans l’enfer des tournantes”

A common punishment for girls who rebel, in the worst case, is the so-called “tournante” – gang rape. Samira Bellil was the first to describe this phenomena in her book “Dans l’enfer des tournantes” (in gang-rape hell). She had been the victim of three gang rapes before she found the courage, after psychotherapeutic treatment, to tell her story. Samira Bellil was also patron of “Ni putes ni soumises” (Neither whores nor submissive) until she died in 2004 at 31 of stomach cancer.

Sapphire on her novel "Precious"

“I really wanted to show a young woman who changes her life without falling in love and without getting married, and without plastic surgery or a physical change.”
In other words, she didn’t want Precious to succeed via some sort of near magical and unlikely intervention, like losing a hundred pounds and actually looking like Cinderella. “I wanted to show how somebody can take concrete steps and work on her deficiencies and move her life forward,” she said, “which is what millions of women are going to have to do.”
“She doesn’t achieve this through romance,” Sapphire said, “or through finding a boyfriend, or losing a hundred pounds, but through literacy, some friends, her loving relationship with her child. That’s why it’s the cultural event of the season.”
from the NY Times interview(via mhight

I wanna read this..

Each story in this jubilantly acclaimed collection pays testament to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances.

A family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya scurries to find gifts of any kind for the impending Christmas holiday. A Rwandan girl relates her family’s struggles to maintain a facade of normalcy amid unspeakable acts. A young brother and sister cope with their uncle’s attempt to sell them into slavery. Aboard a bus filled with refugees—a microcosm of today’s Africa—a Muslim boy summons his faith to bear a treacherous ride across Nigeria. Through the eyes of childhood friends the emotional toll of religious conflict in Ethiopia becomes viscerally clear.

Uwem Akpan's debut signals the arrival of a breathtakingly talented writer who gives a matter-of-fact reality to the most extreme circumstances in stories that are nothing short of transcendent.