These poems span the breadth of the black American experience, from body image, to racism, to code switching, to love, speaking to all aspects of daily life, sometimes in its most mundane, but also in the cognitive dissonance that it is to be black in America. Yet these poems are also hopeful in their outlook, and at times humorous and light-hearted in their content and style. I really loved the variety of subject for each poem, switching from deeply personal experiences, to experiences that are stamped upon the collective consciousness of black folk in the western world.