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The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America by Paula J. Giddings
Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture (Series Q) by Siobhan B. Somerville
The House That Race Built: Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Bl ack American by Wahneema Lubiano
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About my libraryI think ultimately there will be about 1200 books in here, so judge for yourself how complete it is as I go along. I shelve (and therefore catalogue) by category, including: fiction; general nonfiction (a lot of critical and cultural theory, a lot about race in the United States, esp. African American/white race relations); poetry; drama; biography; education; adoption and parenting (both theoretical and practical); queer studies (fiction, theory, self-help etc.); religion (especially, but not exclusively Christianity) and a nice set of Library of America editions of American literature.
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by
Edgar Guest
He was going to be all that a mortal should be
Tomorrow.
No one should be kinder or braver than he
Tomorrow.
A friend who was troubled and weary he knew,
Who'd be glad of a lift and who needed it, too;
On him he would call and see what he could do
Tomorrow.
Each morning he stacked up the letters he'd write
Tomorrow.
And thought of the folks he would fill with delight
Tomorrow.
It was too bad, indeed, he was busy today,
And hadn't a minute to stop on his way;
More time he would have to give others, he'd say
Tomorrow.
The greatest of workers this man would have been
Tomorrow.
The world would have known him, had he ever seen
Tomorrow.
But the fact is he died and he faded from view,
And all that he left here when living was through
Was a mountain of things he intended to do
Tomorrow.
"Collected Works of Edgar Guest"
Cutchogue, NY: Buccaneer Books, p. 72
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