I wish I could talk to other people as well as he does. He acknowledges he feels the same things as me - the need to fight injustice, being motivated by how the systemic injustices affect our lives, and also the flood of topics that come up in a conversation with a person who "hates" us and the inability to address them with the wit, statistics, and infographics that will surely win the other person over. (It never does.)

An imporant takeaway for me was that I do want conversations with everyone from all perspectives, but the thing that has been frustrating me and making it seem like maybe I wasn't as open to other viewpoints as I wanted was that people seemed to fall into debate and interrogation with me rather than real humanizing conversation. Recognizing that difference is essential - unfortunately I don't know that I have the skill to guide a conversation from the antagonistic debate to an actual conversation. But I enjoyed the book and highly recommend it.