A review by lewisalex10
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

5.0

This passage will forever stick with me: “The nation as it is currently constituted has never dealt with a yesterday or tomorrow where we were radically honest, generous, and tender with each other. It will, though. It will not be reformed. It will be bent, broken, undone, and rebuilt. The work of bending, breaking, and building the nation we deserve will not start or end with you or me; but that work will necessitate loving Black family, however oddly shaped… learning how to talk, listen, organize, imagine, strategize, and fight fight fight for and with Black children.”