I say I love my people and mean there is a language that is only ours, and within that language there is shelter. But when I speak that language in the world, I know how eager the world might be to bend it to its own desires.From breakout writer and peerless new voice Hanif Abdurraqib, the New York Times bestselling author of Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest, comes a soaring and heartfelt examination of Black performance in America, in which race, history, culture, entertainment, and lived experience collide."Funny, painful, precise, desperate, and loving throughout. Not a day has sounded the same since I read him." Greil Marcus, Village Voice