My Review 
 There's an assumed safety that comes with me being me. When I walk down the street, more often than not people assume my positive intent. This is a privilege. I don't know how to solve it, but I recognize it. 
 Favorite Quotes 
 But race is the child of racism, not the father. 
 I remember being amazed that death could so easily rise up from the nothing of a boyish afternoon, billow up like fog. 
 You can no more be black like I am black than I could be black like your grandfather was. 
 The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free. 
 You [our children] are all we have, and you come to us endangered. I think we would like to kill you ourselves before seeing you killed by the streets that America made. 
 And hell upon those who tell us to be twice as good and shoot us no matter. 
 The galaxy belonged to them, and as terror was communicated to our children, I saw mastery communicated to theirs.