Metaphor: "In this game of life / your family is the court / and the ball is your heart. Then he says that the hoop is "for sale" and he is "the buyer," a cute way of showing that he "owns" the hoop because he "bought it" with his prowess.
Josh says first that he is "on fire," revealing that he knows he is fierce and is doing very well. The hoop's for sale, / and I'm the buyer" (5)Īlexander uses numerous metaphors when describing the experience of watching or playing basketball this is merely one of the first. And so, at such a point when I believe that things aren't improving, it's going to be at a point when I'm not doing what I have to do.Buy Study Guide Metaphor: "See, when I play ball, / I'm on fire. I'm going to write windows, I'm going to write mirrors, I'm going to write books that are going to elevate and empower young people, to help them become more human.Īnd ultimately, yes, I'm going to write because I think that things are improving, because I have a role to play in that. I'm going to write what I want to write, I'm going to write about who I want to write. She said, "I write what I want, I write what I like, I'm going to dance naked on the floor, and if you don't like it, you can go home." If you can't handle it, you can go home - and to a certain degree, that's what I feel. I think Nikki Giovanni had this one quote. I spend a lot of time making things better. So I don't spend a whole lot of time trying to worry or wonder or hope that things are going to get better. I don't spend a whole lot of time trying to worry or wonder or hope that things are going to get better. I think that so often we think of boys as just wanting to be a part of sports, but when you get on a sports team and you really get in that huddle and you get on the court with these boys, or you get on the pitch, it's all about family and friendship and love and rivalry and it's extremely emotional. And it was important that I did that with Nick because again, I'm writing from this space of what I would have wanted to have read as a 12-year-old, as a boy and the kind of boy that I was.
We are human.Īnd I tried to really make sure that in The Crossover, with Josh and J.B., I did that. It's important and imperative for people, you know, who are looking at us, who are interacting with us, to know that, as well.
And I think that it's important for us to know it and to feel OK about it as boys.
I think boys, we get a bad rap! I wanted to sort of shine light on this reality that boys in general, black boys in particular, we smile, we laugh, we love, we cry, we hope, we think like everyone else. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Booked Author Kwame Alexander
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