All the Women in My Family Sing: Women Write the World: Essays on Equality, Justice, and Freedom - Tapa blanda

"This mosaic of women's voices inspires, heals, and offers hope in dark times. A memorable collection that will make your heart sing." - Ruth Behar, author of Lucky Broken Girl

"These perfectly chosen, Women Words are a healing gift from new sistahs, now my family, for whom I will fight, with whom I will stand and because of whom, I will build." - Alfre Woodard, Actor, Activist

"The voices in All the Women in My Family Sing intermingle to produce a harmony of moving experiences that taps into the rhythm of our collective desires for a more compassionate world." - Nancy Wilson, Jazz Singer; three-time Grammy Award-winner

"In their common pursuits of acceptance, friendship and social justice, these writers demonstrate that there are truths and desires that transcend lines of color, sexuality and class. In sounding common chords of humanity, their voices, together, create a mighty chorus." - USA Today

"All the Women in My Family Sing is a bold, evocative anthology that cannot be read without engaging your full heart. The essays about identity, family, love, acceptance, and fear are a testament to the times, unrelenting in their examination of personal and global pain. There's triumph here and the resilience specific to the female spirit." - Nichelle Tramble Spellman, author of The Dying Ground and The Last King Writer/Producer of The Good Wife and Justified

"All the Women in My Family Sing encompasses everything that is important about women of color -- our diversity, sacrifice, crusade for equality, and the impact we have made on the lives of others." - Jenny Bach, California Democratic Party Secretary

"This moving anthology of essays by women of color illuminates the struggles, traditions, and life views of women at the dawn of the 21st century. The 69 authors grapple with identity, belonging, self-esteem, and sexuality, among other topics." - Publishers Weekly

"Whether the words pour forth like Jazz or salsa, indie rock or R&B, indigenous drums, kotos, maracas, or the sheng, they all ring out in stories of ancestry, forgiveness, struggle and victory. It is an eclectic collection where you may hear both new and familiar songs which seem to reflect Lucille Clifton's request that we 'celebrate' with her the fact that each woman writer has survived, indeed flourished through rivers bridged, mountains climbed or oceans navigated despite hurricane storms." - devorah major, poet/novelist/essayist, San Francisco 3rd Poet Laureate

"Impassioned writers bearing witness to survival, creativity, and hope." - Kirkus Reviews

"A revolutionary primer for all us well-meaning white folks who haven't a clue about what it's like to be a woman of color." - Susan Gabriel, author of Trueluck Summer