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rsonderman13's review
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
2.5
e_tully4's review
3.0
This was good, but a lot to read all at once. I really felt connected to the later 50% of the book, where the beginning was harder to get through.
stefhyena's review against another edition
5.0
This is a very liberated voice that colours outside of the lines in every way you can imagine. Walker gives us here her thoughts, blog-like and free-floating as likely to burst into poetry (her own or others) as not. Reoccuring themes are life, food, family, culture, justice as well as blackness and at times femaleness.
This is a spirituality anchored in yoga but respectful also of any spirituality ever that has advocated for joy, love and peace. At times Walker seems to contradict herself, at other times she seems to catch herself doing it but is determined not to apologise for writing with an ever-expanding motherly heart rather than with logic. I like logic as a whole so I found her level of freedom difficult to deal with but there was so much light and hope in each luminous sentence that I decided to take the writing as a gift, a sort of medicine for my sometimes too-cynical and overthinking brain. I thought that if Walker has survived seeing so many terrible things and experiencing some of them perhaps and she is not afraid to speak about the darker things (rape, torture, toxic ways of thinking) even as she advocates the simplicity of love as a cure she herself in her beauty is powerful evidence that there is something in her approach.
Walker has been passionate, hardworking, activist. She is not one to sit and ignore the pain in the world and simply dream dreams. I allowed her beautiful words to wash over me, because if it is worth being human at all then it is worth having hope for ourselves and "our" children (all children present and future. Read it not to be persuaded but to be healed. But be prepared also to confront the darkness and the way our ignorance allows it.
If light is wisdom then wisdom is here.
This is a spirituality anchored in yoga but respectful also of any spirituality ever that has advocated for joy, love and peace. At times Walker seems to contradict herself, at other times she seems to catch herself doing it but is determined not to apologise for writing with an ever-expanding motherly heart rather than with logic. I like logic as a whole so I found her level of freedom difficult to deal with but there was so much light and hope in each luminous sentence that I decided to take the writing as a gift, a sort of medicine for my sometimes too-cynical and overthinking brain. I thought that if Walker has survived seeing so many terrible things and experiencing some of them perhaps and she is not afraid to speak about the darker things (rape, torture, toxic ways of thinking) even as she advocates the simplicity of love as a cure she herself in her beauty is powerful evidence that there is something in her approach.
Walker has been passionate, hardworking, activist. She is not one to sit and ignore the pain in the world and simply dream dreams. I allowed her beautiful words to wash over me, because if it is worth being human at all then it is worth having hope for ourselves and "our" children (all children present and future. Read it not to be persuaded but to be healed. But be prepared also to confront the darkness and the way our ignorance allows it.
If light is wisdom then wisdom is here.
ksherman712's review against another edition
5.0
The Pause. The moment when something major is accomplished and we are so relieved to finally be done with it that we are already rushing, at least mentally, into The Future. Wisdom, however requests a pause.
earthtokyla's review
5.0
This book made me feel very seen. I’m usually so confused about how to feel about things because I have a fear of being too passionate, but also a fear of being too lax. I guess this book reminded me that I could just feel how I feel and I don’t need to worry about the level of feeling I’m doing.
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