Skip to main content

Stretch Your Wings: Famous Black Quotations for Teens

Review

Stretch Your Wings: Famous Black Quotations for Teens

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 on October 1, 1999

Stretch Your Wings: Famous Black Quotations for Teens
Edited by Janet Cheatham Bell and Lucille Usher Freeman

  • Publication Date: October 1, 1999
  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
  • ISBN-10: 0316038253
  • ISBN-13: 9780316038256