A review by littleredmacks
And We Rise by Erica Martin

challenging informative inspiring fast-paced

4.5

 4.5 stars 

Book of poetry 

Civil rights movement 

Read by the author 

Powerful poems 

 

I felt like every poem in this collection was raw and vulnerable. 

 

This author came across the fact that Rosa Parks wasn’t the first black woman to refuse to give up her seat but we didn’t learn about her so she started doing research in an attempt to uncover the true history that America loves to cover up. 

 

The signs, everywhere you go poem was powerful to listen to. I'm not sure the impact would have been the same if I was only reading it. 

 

I heard there were pictures in the book/ebook and would have loved to see that so I'm a bit disappointed I missed out on that. 

Favorite Quotes: 

"There's no difference / between you / and i / except that you get to live / and i get to die / trying"  

 

"Ride or die/ for there are things worse than death/ like being deprived of freedom/ until your last rattling breath"

 

"But darling we’re still prisoners of the red white and blue"

 

"If I could go back I would capture the captures/ and tell my people to flee/ if I could go back I would burn down the ships/ so they never even crossed the sea" 

 

"History has become a beautiful American lie/overseers rewrite it and always deny/people have the right to know the ugly truth/ but only tell part of it/ especially to the youth"