Amy Rhilinger’s Reviews > Between the World and Me > Status Update

"There was more out there than I had ever hoped for, and I wanted you to have it. I wanted you to know that the world in its entirety could never be found in the schools, alone, nor on the streets,alone, nor in the trophy case.i wanted you to claim the whole world,as it is."

"The Dream thrives on generalization, on limiting the number of possible questions, on privileging immediate answers. The Dream is the enemy of all art, courageous thinking and honest writing. And it became clear that this was not just for the dreams concocted by Americans to justify themselves but also for the dreams that I had conjured to replace them."

"The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free."

"When our elders presented school to us, they did not present it as a place of high learning but as a means of escape from death and penal warehousing. Fully 60 percent of all young black men who drop out of high school will go to jail." Heartbreaking