It is about becoming your best self, even though you are being judged by the color of your skin and not the content of your character. It's about falling down in life and getting back up. It's about finding purpose, finding resilience. And that's really what this book is about as well. Then she said, you talk it, never stop talking. You dance it, you march, you vote it, you do everything about it. With spellbinding lyricism, award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam tell a moving and deeply profound story about how one boy is able to maintain his humanity and fight for the truth, in a system designed to strip him of both.-from the publisher. And then she gives us a way to become alchemists in our own lives. 3,382 reviews From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated.It doesn't do anything to the object of his displeasure. New York Times and USA Today bestseller Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Walter Award Winner Goodreads Finalist for Best Teen Book of the Year Time. Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi (Goodreads Author), Yusef Salaam 4.45 She said bitterness is like a cancer, it eats upon the host. Maya Angelou said you should be angry, but you must not be bitter. That is when I look at mentors, you know, Nelson Mandela said that he had to leave anger and bitterness in the prison, because if he took it out with him, it would turn into something and destroy him.
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