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Jabari Asim
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St. Louis, The United States
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November 2009
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Yonder
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2022
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Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis
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2016
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Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington
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2012
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Whose Toes are Those?
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The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why
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2007
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Whose Knees Are These?
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2006
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A Taste of Honey: Stories
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2010
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We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival
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2018
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Only the Strong
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2015
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Girl of Mine
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“Unwinding the white strips from our bodies, we let our sadness float to the ground. Women kicked their heels above their heads. Men twisted and flexed. In a whirl of laughter, wild notes, and hallelujahs, we shook and cried. Cried and shook. The fiddlers took up their instruments again and committed to furious bowing, sawing at the strings in a frenzy.”
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“What y'all ladies got to share? Hmmm, what you bitches got?"
Aunt Georgia sighed and squinted at the boy. She said, "The Lord loves a cheerful giver, but I'm just not in the mood."
The thug moved his hand from his crotch to his scalp, still scratching. "What in the hell's that supposed to mean?" Mrs. Cleveland raised and pumped her walking stick, which, it turned out, was a double-barreled shotgun.
"It means take one more step," she said, "and I'll blast you to hell, you ignorant-ass bastard.”
― A Taste of Honey: Stories
Aunt Georgia sighed and squinted at the boy. She said, "The Lord loves a cheerful giver, but I'm just not in the mood."
The thug moved his hand from his crotch to his scalp, still scratching. "What in the hell's that supposed to mean?" Mrs. Cleveland raised and pumped her walking stick, which, it turned out, was a double-barreled shotgun.
"It means take one more step," she said, "and I'll blast you to hell, you ignorant-ass bastard.”
― A Taste of Honey: Stories
“opprobrious term, employed to impose contempt upon”
― The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why
― The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why
“I did infer, however, that submitting to melancholy would undo the labors of those who had come before me, that I had an obligation to resist instead of giving in. I rose unsteadily to my feet, aware of my shackles, but determined to somehow overcome them.”
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| Literary Fiction ...: Discussion: A Taste of Honey | 83 | 69 | Aug 13, 2010 07:37PM | |
| Literary Fiction ...: Favorite Reads of 2010 | 12 | 48 | Jan 13, 2011 08:34PM | |
| *Frugal Book Lender*: A Taste of Honey, Jabari Asim | 1 | 7 | Feb 22, 2011 05:47PM | |
| Literary Fiction ...: NAACP Image Awards: NEWS! | 3 | 38 | Mar 06, 2011 08:14PM | |
| Literary Fiction ...: Discussion: This Is How You Lose Her | 213 | 222 | Dec 31, 2012 03:35PM | |
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“What y'all ladies got to share? Hmmm, what you bitches got?"
Aunt Georgia sighed and squinted at the boy. She said, "The Lord loves a cheerful giver, but I'm just not in the mood."
The thug moved his hand from his crotch to his scalp, still scratching. "What in the hell's that supposed to mean?" Mrs. Cleveland raised and pumped her walking stick, which, it turned out, was a double-barreled shotgun.
"It means take one more step," she said, "and I'll blast you to hell, you ignorant-ass bastard.”
― A Taste of Honey: Stories
Aunt Georgia sighed and squinted at the boy. She said, "The Lord loves a cheerful giver, but I'm just not in the mood."
The thug moved his hand from his crotch to his scalp, still scratching. "What in the hell's that supposed to mean?" Mrs. Cleveland raised and pumped her walking stick, which, it turned out, was a double-barreled shotgun.
"It means take one more step," she said, "and I'll blast you to hell, you ignorant-ass bastard.”
― A Taste of Honey: Stories
“What could be more American than pretending truths were self-evident when they seldom were? What could be more American than dressing up a lie in tailor-made language, like romanticizing treason as a Lost Cause or sugarcoating genocide by rebranding it as Manifest Destiny? As a bulwark against the realities of life in a racist republic, our fictions helped us believe we belonged.”
― We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival
― We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival
“Along with brutality, torture, and murder, a principal step in oppression, American-style has long involved getting between the oppressed and their stories. Depending on the circumstances, intervention may involve disputing oppressed people’s versions of events, distorting them or seizing them outright, or renaming and repurposing them. Nurturing the lie at the heart of each method, a maneuver known in some locales as “getting it twisted,” helps oppressors sustain what Toni Morrison calls the master narrative.”
― We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival
― We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival
“The 'mainstream' press, suffering from an embarrassing lack of diversity, did little to resist the tsunami, using 'working class' as a euphemism for white people, often uncritically accepting police accounts of shootings involving unarmed black people, and showing a woeful reluctance to identify racists as the unprincipled degenerates they are. The dithering over the appropriateness of using 'alt-right,' 'white nationalist,' etc. is a sideshow that helps us to avoid the fundamental questions that must be confronted: Is voting for a racist itself a racist act? Can one commit a racist act and not be a racist?”
― We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival
― We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival
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Hey Jabari...Thanks for accepting my friend request. My daughter loves your books "Whose toes are those?" and "Whose knees are these?"...they are so cute!!!
