From the Ashes: The Fire This Time - Paperback
From the Ashes: The Fire This Time - Paperback
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by Lewis III Thomas (Author)
I was born into a world already on fire-North Philadelphia heat, church-pew hymns, schoolhouse judgments, and the quiet blaze of a boy trying to become whole in a country that rarely makes room for his full humanity. I learned early how to wear confidence like armor. How to survive the Veil. How to keep moving even when shame tried to name me.
From the Ashes: The Fire This Time is not a story about perfection-it's a story about return. Return to the sacred grounding of a grandmother's discipline and love. Return to lineage-HBCU footsteps and ancestral memory. Return to Black love that refuses to hide. Return to a self no longer performed for approval but claimed in truth.
Braiding Baldwin's fire, Du Bois's veil, and Akbar's African-centered call to know thyself, Lewis Thomas III offers a memoir that reads like a testimony and a map. With lyrical honesty and unflinching tenderness, he invites readers into the heat where identity is forged, where community becomes salvation, and where radical healing is not a destination but a practice.
For anyone who has ever been misseen, mislabeled, or made to doubt their worth: this book is a reminder-you have always been worthy of everything.
