Kim Johnson
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This Is My America
11 editions
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published
2020
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Invisible Son
5 editions
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expected publication
2023
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“An AK-47 in a white hand has more rights than a Black kid with Skittles.”
― This Is My America
― This Is My America
“When I’m ready, I force myself to study Mama, because I need to learn that strength so I can pass it down, like a family recipe. An heirloom. A curse.”
― This Is My America
― This Is My America
“hundred years, and we still ain’t American to them, T. All that blood. We built America. Black labor built the greatest nation in the world for free. They ripped us from our family then, and they do it again with new laws disguised as change. I’ll be in prison doing that labor for free.”
― This Is My America
― This Is My America
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