"Sister Souljah is a legitimate young voice in black America, a solid thinker who is astute, justifiably angry, and boldly outspoken. Listen to her courageous and painful words in this book."-Cornel West "Sister Souljah is one of the most eloquent and articulate spokespersons of her generation. The result is an outspoken and often courageous rejoinder to the pieties of race, class, and gender by a writer who is at once wise, bawdy, brutally funny, and as sensitive a lightning rod in a thunderstorm. Now she uses that voice to deliver what is at once a fiercely candid autobiography and a survival manual for any African American woman determined to keep her heart open and her integrity intact in modern America.Įach chapter of No Disrespect is devoted to someone who made a difference in Sister Souljah’s life-from the mother who raised her to the men who educated (and mis-educated) her about love-and each bares a controversial truth about the black condition in America: the disintegration of families the unremitting combat between the sexes and the thousand and one ways in which racism continues to circumscribe how African American people see themselves and treat one another. Rapper, activist, and hip-hop rebel, Sister Souljah possesses the most passionate and articulate voice to emerge from the projects.
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