Excellent history lesson. Should be included in school curriculum.

• Beautiful and critical
• A primer a love letter
• The kind of book you want to keep near you

An exhilarating intellectual history of the Black radical imagination. I wish I could have read a multimedia annotated version, or at least a hyper-linked one. FREEDOM DREAMS is a treasure trove of other texts and imaginations to visit with next, and I'm glad Kelley gave me a glimpse into his own.

Loving that all these authors are in dialogue with one another's works, even across generations. This was a cogent and urgent request for more imagination, creativity, and dreaming to build the world we want to see, through chapters and lenses of Kelley's own journey. Super fluid, engrossing. Highly recommend.

Good book. I devoured the second to last chapter, because I am in love with black queer feminists. Throughout the book, the author delves into various radical thought and reveals the contributions from black communities, as well as how they deviated from the ideologies we've been introduced to.

Innovative choices in topic matter and method of approach make this a truly unique book, and stylistically groundbreaking in intellectual history. In some places, particularly those dealing with artistic analysis, the style becomes somewhat disjointed (although this may be because it is expecting a level of familiarity with formal analysis which I lack), but is generally strong and clear throughout