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Elegantly written, Tears We Cannot Stop is powerful in several areas:
moving personal recollections; profound cultural analysis; and guidance
for moral redemption. A work to relish. --Toni Morrison
Here's a sermon that's as fierce as it is lucid. It shook me up, but in
a good way. This is how it works if you're black in America, this is
what happens, and this is how it feels. If you're black, you'll feel a
spark of recognition in every paragraph. If you're white, Dyson tells
you what you need to know--what this white man needed to know, at least.
This is a major achievement. I read it and said amen. --Stephen King
As the country grapples with racist division at a level not seen since
the 1960s, one man's voice is heard above the rest. In his New York
Times op-ed piece Death in Black and White, Michael Eric Dyson moved a
nation. Isabel Wilkerson called it an unfiltered Marlboro of black pain
and crushingly powerful, and Beyonce tweeted about it. Now he continues
to speak out in Tears We Cannot Stop--a provocative and deeply
personal call for change. Dyson argues that if we are to make real
racial progress we must face difficult truths, including being honest
about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted.
Short, emotional, literary, powerful--this is the book that all
Americans who care about the current and long-burning crisis in race
relations will want to read.
