This book is Sonsyrea Tate's triumphant shout testifying to a life filled with grace and courage. It is a testimony for anyone who has to fashion her own life from the legacy of burdens and encouragement handed down by parents, by culture, by religion and by society. In other words, this is a story about becoming fully human and living life out loud--on your own terms.
-Patrice Gaines, author
"Laughing in the Dark"
Endorsements for Little X: Growing Up in the Nation of Islam
Sonsyrea Tate’s autobiographical book is a powerful and poignant story of dignity, grace and struggle. Don’t miss it!
–Cornel West
Princeton University
Instead of writing a bitter condemnation of the Nation of Islam, Tate has adroitly described its purposes as well as its shortcomings.
–USA Today
Tate’s loving but clear-eyed memoir is a young woman’s answer to The Autobiography of Malcolm X. She tells her truth, tells it straight, and lays it all out for us.
-Mohja Kahf
University of Fayetteville
Extremely valuable. Recent literature…is interested exclusively in male leaders. Tate’s book provides a new perspective. I have used the book in a number of teaching contexts to very good results
-Judith Weisenfeld
Vassar College
Taking James Baldwin’s advice, Sonsyrea Tate has indeed accepted her own history – and turned it into art.
–The Virginian Pilot
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