This book is now an established classic of modern America, a book that expresses like none other the crucial truth about our violent times.

The most important book I’ll ever read. It changed the way I thought; it changed the way I acted. It has given me courage that I didn’t know I had inside me. I’m one of the hundreds of thousands whose life was changed for the better.” Spike Lee – director, producer, writer, actor

“It’s not so much the book that changed my life as the book that saved my life. This autobiography does not just bear witness to racism. This is a book about humanity and human failings and how to rise through and beyond them.” Lemn Sissay, poet and playwright

Chosen by Time Magazine as one of the 10 most important non-fiction books of the century.