Check your ego and assumptions at the door. This is a raw book that doesn’t hold back what Sesali Bowen thinks. And she says it so intelligently that even if you don’t agree, it is hard to say she is wrong. This book is so unlike any other book I have read and I appreciate that. It gave me so much to think about that it took me a longer time to finish this book. And that is not a bad thing. She touches on any and every issue for a black women, and as a black woman I appreciate that. She knows her shit. She gives power to black women to be themselves, in whatever form that is. I didn’t know most of the artists she spoke of, but was still able to enjoy the book. And she gives a reference in the back of the book if you are really interested in looking it up.