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genxblackgeeks:
yourbodymybed:
black people books
Urban “Literature”
boo.
I go to the bookstore and see this crap next to ZNH, Baldwin, etc and it makes my skin crawl.
I agree. I move them to their proper categories. There shouldn’t have to be an [insert ethnic identity] section in book stores or libraries.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln7lij3FjB1qenxtgo1_500.jpg)
black people books
Urban “Literature”
boo.
I go to the bookstore and see this crap next to ZNH, Baldwin, etc and it makes my skin crawl.
I agree. I move them to their proper categories. There shouldn’t have to be an [insert ethnic identity] section in book stores or libraries.
Check out the cover art for Rick Riordan’s newest novel: Son of Neptune, second in his Heroes of Olympus series. The book will be released on October 4th, but if you want a sneak preview you can read the first chapter on his official site.
I’m not sure how I feel about this. He already established a cannon just to change it. I’m mad and yet I’m also intrigued. Darn me and my curiosity!
The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it. And that first love affair between the young child and the young book will lead hopefully to other loves for other books and when that happens the battle is probably won. The child will have found a crock of gold. He will also have gained something that will help to carry him most marvelously through the tangles of his later years.
Roald Dahl (via thebookishdark)
Most of Mr. Dahl’s books, as well as Dr. Seuss, Babar and George and Martha fueled my love for reading and adventure, and also helped to teach me how to be curious, loving, and a real friend to someone. ^_^
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.
Hector, in Alan Bennett’s The History Boys (via thebookishdark)
(Source: atomos)
Almost every day, my mailbox is filled with handwritten letters from students–teens and pre-teens–who have read my YA book and loved it. I have yet to receive a letter from a child somehow debilitated by the domestic violence, drug abuse, racism, poverty, sexuality, and murder contained in my book. To the contrary, kids as young as ten have sent me autobiographical letters written in crayon, complete with drawings inspired by my book, that are just as dark, terrifying, and redemptive as anything I’ve ever read.
And, often, kids have told me that my YA novel is the only book they’ve ever read in its entirety.
So when I read Meghan Cox Gurdon’s complaints about the “depravity” and “hideously distorted portrayals” of contemporary young adult literature, I laughed at her condescension.
Sherman Alexie
Why the Best Books Are Written in Blood: http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/06/09/why-the-best-kids-books-are-written-in-blood/
F*** all the things!
3-fifths-human-5-fifths-awesome:
Just when I thought the “History Channel” couldn’t get any worse…
They’re showing something about ancient technology, and they’re talking about the Egyptians. Apparently some archaeologists unearthed, from some old ass crypt, what they initially thought to be a carving of a bird…decades later, someone realized…OH SHIT, that it was in fact a carving of a glider, similar to those we use in modern times.
The obvious question then became: “Were the Ancient Egyptians stumbling upon the power of flight?” So they built a scale replica of the ancient glider and test it.
The shit flew.
And instead of being like, “Oh, fuck…they really may have been about to fly.” Instead of giving them a little bit of credit. They took the
THERE’S NO WAY THOSE BROWN PEOPLE COULD HAVE BEGUN MASTERING FLIGHT…THEY’RE BROOOOWN! ALIENS! ALIENS CAME DOWN AND TAUGHT THEM HOW TO BUILD GLIDERS! YES!
It wasn’t that long ago—literally, less than 15 years—that academia decried the accomplishments of “brown” people by stating that their conquerors “taught” them or “educated” them or brought “civilization” to them. (To this day, in 2011, people will deny this; however, we in the West have a lovely habit of documenting our own ignorance.) However, by that logic, that means that Europeans were slow, dimwitted and uncivilized until they were “taught” by their various African and Asian conquerors. (Now what, academia?)
However, modern “historians” have expanded this sort of thinking to all ancient peoples. Apparently, all of our ancestors were so ignorant that they couldn’t have possibly been intelligent enough, curious enough or clever enough to invent/improve upon their own technology.
We are well aware that the ancient world held education in high esteem, so I have no idea why the same people who decry the existence of aliens would then assign human advancement to non-existent beings. Which just proves my theory that humans (including myself) are naturally idiotic, regardless of what century we live in.
I’m done. ::headdesk::
(Source: ida-b-wells-b-whippin-yo-ass)
A book holds a house of gold.
Chinese Proverb
