The Window 2 My Soul
Subtitle: My Transformation from a Zone 8 Thug to a Father & Freedom Fighter, a political memoir
By: [Yusef Shakur].
Contributors: Dr. Carl S. Taylor and Tonya Allen
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Urban Guerrrilla Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Detroit, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781604611335
Subjects: Shakur, Yusef, -- 1973-; African American men -- Biography.; African American men -- Social conditions.; African American prisoners -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Window to my soul
First sentence: My birth was the same as millions of Black youth in Amerikkka: a debate between an expecting Black mother and her relatives as to whether or not  the child she was carrying should be born in the first place.
Description: By the time Yusef was a teenager, he was a gangbanger in Detroit's Zone 8, ruthless, heartless, and hopeless. Incarcerated as a teenager for a crime he did not commit, Yusef met the father he never knew behind bars. The man who had never been there for him was now helping him learn and grow - not into a hardened criminal, but a responsible adult. After serving nine years, Yusef returned to his community and is continuing his service as a father, freedom fighter, and activist.
  Not since the Autobiography of Malcolm X has there been a literary artwork that provides Black America with a manual for re-building the minds of Black males...Window 2 My Soul is the most dynamic, compelling, thought-provoking story of the 21st Century.
Table of contents: label: article
title: Living For Change by Grace Lee Boggs
pagenum: v; label: author's statement
title: For The People
pagenum: vii; title: New Forward by Professor Carl S. Taylor
pagenum: ix; title: Preface by Tonya Allen
pagenum: xii; title: Introduction by Comrad Shaka Senghor
pagenum: xvii; label: 1
title: The Genesis: My Upbringing
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: The Foundation: A Zone 8 State Of Mind pt. 1
pagenum: 15; label: 3
title: Dear Mama
pagenum: 43; label: 4
title: The 2nd Comin': A Zone 8 State Of Mind pt. 2
pagenum: 55; label: 5
title: 223605
pagenum: 70; label: 6
title: Father Like Son
pagenum: 98; label: 7
title: Revolutionaries Like Muslims: "Education 2 Liberate"
pagenum: 119; label: 8
title: Revolutionaries, Thugs, Gang Bangers, & Muslims: "Comin' of Age"
pagenum: 135; label: 9
title: Death Comes Knocking
pagenum: 164; label: 10
title: A Souljah Is Only As Strong As He Pushes Himself & As Weak As He Allows Himself 2 Be
pagenum: 182; label: 11
title: They Can Keep The Lion Caged But The Cub Must Go Free
pagenum: 194; label: epilogue
title: "Words of Wisdom" by Ahjamu Baruti
pagenum: 202; title: Afterword by Malik Yakini
pagenum: 211; label: bonus chapter
title: "Gettin' Out & Stayin' Out" by Comrad Bunchy
pagenum: 214