Reviews"He named for me the things you feel but couldn't utter. . . . Jimmy's essays articulated for the first time to white America what it meant to be American and a black American at the same time."-Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "A straight-from-the-shoulder writer, writing about the troubled problems of this troubled earth with an illuminating intensity."-Langston Hughes, The New York Times Book Review "Written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace." - Time , 'He named for me the things you feel but couldn't utter. . . . Jimmy's essays articulated for the first time to white America what it meant to be American and a black American at the same time." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "A straight-from-the-shoulder writer, writing about the troubled problems of this troubled earth with an illuminating intensity." -Langston Hughes, The New York Times Book Review, "He named for me the things you feel but couldn't utter. . . . Jimmy's essays articulated for the first time to white America what it meant to be American and a black American at the same time."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "A straight-from-the-shoulder writer, writing about the troubled problems of this troubled earth with an illuminating intensity."--Langston Hughes, The New York Times Book Review "Written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace." -- Time
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