Extremely Long and Incredibly Boring

First Impression Book Reviews Between the World and Me  by Ta-Nehisi Coates 4.5/5 "I was made for the library not the classroom" Made me want to learn more about the African and Caribbean histories and literary canons that he mentions. "To challenge the police is to challenge the American people" "Hate gives identity" "These are the preferences of the universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope" He talks about a cannibalistic democracy - no mountains without valleys The black body was a major theme. This included how the body was the soul, the relationship between black bodies and violence, what space they occupy, how to claim/control your body. Also, white and black were discussed not as a race but as a status/classification. Black is bound by a dream, as a tribe, not a race. "Perhaps being named black was someone's name for being at the bottom" Struggle vs. dream Identity as a label vs. a quality ---...