A review by juliannewarren12
Dear Black Girls: How to Be True to You by A'ja Wilson

inspiring fast-paced

3.75

As a gamecock, I of course have to read anything by A’ja Wilson. As a white woman, I am clearly not the target audience for this book… it was still an important read nonetheless. There are anecdotes and perspectives that  everyone can learn from.  It was a simple yet powerful book that I think is proven by this one (of many!) excerpts:

I wonder… When she was growing up, walking down these streets that were proudly named after prominent slaveholders, walking past those government buildings flying the Confederate flag, walking around the college campus that was strictly off-limits to Black Americans, did she imagine that one day her granddaughter would get to attend that same university— on a scholarship no less? Could she have ever in a million years dreamed there would be a statue of her granddaughter on those same grounds? … Did you have that much hope in your heart, Grandma?