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336 pages, Hardcover
First published February 3, 2015
“You can say all you want that race doesn’t matter, but the reaction to those posters that hang on our school walls says it does, and Principal Green’s overcompensation to make the white kids feel included says it does.” (ARC, p.234)
“I think celebrating diversity is fine, but not in the place of honoring black history. February is only twenty-eight days; they can at least give us that.” (ARC, p. 187)
They've painted and planted and made beauty out of decaying dreams. Block after block, strangers kept coming to Jackson Avenue, kept coming and changing and remaking and adding on to and taking away from.
And women throughout our neighborhood pull me aside, saying things like, "I'm glad he's dating you and not one of them." And by them they either mean a white girl or hood girl.