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“What I imagine to be most difficult is the exact moment when you realize that your wealth and success will still not save you. To be black and understand that you are in a country that values these things, but will still speak of how you earned your death after you are gone far too soon.”
“There is no moment in America when I do not feel like I am fighting. When I do not feel like I’m pushing back against a machine that asks me to prove that I belong here.”
“What people are asking in this exercise is never about where I’m from. The question they’re asking is ‘why doesn’t your name fit comfortably in my mouth?’”
“I remember the fear I felt when I realized that I had buried enough friends to think of death almost casually.”
An absolute masterpiece. Everyone should read this collection of essays.
Not only did Hanif make me care about the art of music, but he opened up a world I didn’t know existed within the music scene.
His candid depiction of the everyday black experience is remarkable. 10/10! I was captivated and had to read slowly so that I could take in all that he was communicating.
August 9, 2014 is one of the best pieces I’ve ever read.
“There is no moment in America when I do not feel like I am fighting. When I do not feel like I’m pushing back against a machine that asks me to prove that I belong here.”
“What people are asking in this exercise is never about where I’m from. The question they’re asking is ‘why doesn’t your name fit comfortably in my mouth?’”
“I remember the fear I felt when I realized that I had buried enough friends to think of death almost casually.”
An absolute masterpiece. Everyone should read this collection of essays.
Not only did Hanif make me care about the art of music, but he opened up a world I didn’t know existed within the music scene.
His candid depiction of the everyday black experience is remarkable. 10/10! I was captivated and had to read slowly so that I could take in all that he was communicating.
August 9, 2014 is one of the best pieces I’ve ever read.
I really enjoyed the lyricism of There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension. This book held up in the same way, but mainstream radio music has never been something that clicked with me. While I too love Springsteen and massively respect Prince, I found myself not caring enough to make through to the end.
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And God, if you’re listening, I do worry.
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Woah
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This collection is amazing. I have read and reread several of the essays, sharing them with my students, reading them aloud to colleagues and my oldest son. I highly recommend it.
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This collection of essays is structured really well, and flows from one to another in a way that kept me engaged. Drawing parallels between personal events and those of the musicians and athletes written about works as an entry point to making the personal more universal. Maybe I’m biased, because I’m in my 30s and grew up in the suburbs going to shows at local venues where I grew up, but the essays about those subcultures really resonated with me. The fall out boy one is gonna stick with me for a while.
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the bits i enjoyed were good but it just seemed a bit repetitive after a while
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