On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope

“Hope is not magic, hope is work.” “If faith is our belief that our world will be better and hope our belief that it can be better, imagiination is what allows us to navigate between the two. to paint a picture of the future that we can touch, feel, bring into being.” Strongly recommend investing 3.5 of your hours (for the audibook, probably even shorter if you read it) to spend time with DeRay. He takes such complex ideas and makes them simple in an elegant way. Through his work he's honed his messages to get right to a topic's essense and then you'll want to sit and think and chew on them for a while. This was maybe the first audiobook I've listened to that I didn't speed up, because his natural talking rhythm is quick. I was also pausing throughout to take notes (for the mental chewing) on his many actionable ideas. He shares just enough of his personal story to enhance and humanize his message. Great especially in conversation with other memoirs of BLM activists.