504 reviews for:

You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience

Tarana Burke, Brené Brown

4.56 AVERAGE

readitandquip's review

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While I'm not the target audience, I enjoyed listening to these short essays and learning more about the Black experience.

alexrollins's review against another edition

4.0

inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

anakuroma's review

5.0

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TW: racism, colorism, trauma, physical and emotional abuse, sexual assaults, fatphobia, ableism, gaslighting.

(Note: this review comes from the point of view of a white person)

This is the first anthology I've read that I loved every. single. entry. Sometimes words are inadequate to describe the journey certain books take you on. This hit me hard, but most importantly gave a voice to so many powerful Black people that deserve all our attention and offered so much needed hope, healing and love.

jessicalyric's review

5.0

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This isn’t an easy read but it’s powerful and necessary. As a white woman, I need to hear these stories of trauma, oppression, prejudice and macro and micro aggressions in these writers’ lived experiences. A gut punch of a collection.

pisces1_1318's review

5.0

dark inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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I related to so many of these essays and poems. I definitely could have used this when I was writing my undergrad thesis. 

bethiclaus's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

becca_books's review

4.5

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

tayburdiss's review

5.0

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Beautiful, insightful, heart wrenching

brittanytxyz's review

4.5

emotional hopeful reflective

katiekelly's review

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

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My goal to read every Brene Brown book written lead me here. While her name is on the book and scattered throughout it on the lips of others the voices within this book are far more powerful as a collective. Such a great read with important perspective.