STRETCH YOUR WINGS: Famous Black Quotations for Teens by Janet Cheatham Bell (Editor), Lucille Usher Freeman (Editor)

STRETCH YOUR WINGS: Famous Black Quotations for Teens
Janet Cheatham Bell (Editor), Lucille Usher Freeman (Editor)
Little Brown & Co
Young Adult
ISBN: 0316038253

I think if I had to list my favorite thing in life, it would have to be fortune cookies. Think about it: food and words. A quick little statement wrapped in an edible shell regarding your staggering success, your true love tomorrow, your... So much can be conveyed in so few words, which must be why Teenreads.com Quote of the Day has such a loyal following.

STRETCH YOUR MIND is a quick collection of wise words from Toni Morrison to Kobe Bryant on everything from doing your best ("I really do believe that we can all become better than we are" by author James Baldwin) to the tough subject of racism ("The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less" by Black Panther Party's Elridge Cleaver).

A book you will open again and again for a quick fix whether it be Black History Month or any other month of the year.

--- Reviewed by Krista Madsen