A review by gremkinz07
See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur

4.0

It is only through accessing her ferocity that divine rage can take form in the world. Perhaps our task as human beings is to find safe containers for our raw revolutionary rage — and then choose to harness that energy in a way that creates a new world for all of us. 133

I heard the suffering inside their hate: their sense of violation since 9/11, their anxiety about keeping their jobs, their terror as a nation where white people like them had economic and cultural control seemed to disappear. Their relief upon the rise of political figures who validated their hate…. Someone had to tend to their wound. 158 Pain that is not transformed is transferred. 159

Each night, I die a kind of death. Each morning, I wake to the gift of a new lifetime. In between, I labor in love. It is enough. 300

Has an intense description of giving birth.

My sister should read this