Between the World and Me

[Jack]

I recommend this book for older mature teens and young adults.
This is, by far, the best non-fiction book I have read this year (2015). I have some quotes below but I do not have words about the words. Please add your thoughts in comments.

"...the progress of those Americans who believe they are white, was built on looting and violence." I needed to read this but it is sad, so sad. Will Judgment really confront the evil that was and is done? There is nothing and we must confront it and ourselves by ourselves.

"So you must wake up every morning knowing that no promise is unbreakable, least of all the promise of waking up at all." Compare this to the triviality of Waking Up White

Black people were commoditized and "You cannot forget how much they took from us and how they transfigured our very bodies into sugar, tobacco, cotton, and gold." For a historic fiction novel for older _very mature_ teens and young adults see AMA

(In writing to his son) "...she understood something more---that all are not equally robbed of their bodies, that the bodies of women are set out for pillage in ways I could never truly know."