" Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around creatively utilizes roughly two hundred publications, and interviews spanning forty years, to successfully explore the roots and fruits of Smith's activism and intellect ... As African American bodies continue to come under attack across the United States with inadequate consequences and news coverage, [this book] is urgent reading because it clarifies our understanding of interlocking systems of oppression, the many types of violence they generate, and the need to fight against them."
         -- Journal of African American History

"...a wonderful read on solidarity, resistance, and outsider politics."
         -- The Advocate

"...Barbara Smith is everything. So is this book ... [it] challenges us all to dig deeper in our work and never stop pursuing actual, authentic liberation."
         -- Autostraddle

"In a clear, accessible, and conversational style, the book engages readers in fundamental questions that those committed to social justice must grapple with in order to deepen their work and heighten their integrity, accountability, and courage."
         -- EDGE Boston

"As a black lesbian feminist, activist, scholar, and elected official, Barbara Smith has been speaking truth to power for four decades. This extensive collection of writings and interviews portrays one indomitable woman and many invaluable movements."
         -- Chronogram

"Barbara Smith has played a groundbreaking role in opening and expanding our national cultural and political dialogues about the intersections of race, class, sexuality, and gender. Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around ... brings to life the controversies, players and strategies that expanded the definitions of freedom and liberation over four decades."
         -- Seattle Lesbian

"...a massive and important work ... This will be an important book for students of the Civil Rights movement, but also for those who want to know what it takes to build movements, and movements that last."
         -- San Francisco Book Review

"Barbara Smith is a creator of modern feminism as a writer, organizer, editor, publisher, and scholar. Now she has added to her decades as an activist outside the system by becoming an elected official who truly listens, represents, and creates bridges to a common good. She has shown us that democracy is a seed that can only be planted where we are."
         -- Gloria Steinem

"Barbara Smith is one of the grand pioneering and prophetic voices of our time. Her truth still hurts and heals!"
         -- Cornel West

" Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around is not a memoir, a biography, nor a reader. It is a reflection and a conversation. It is also a montage of forty years of documents, interviews, and articles that provide useful lessons for social justice work. This book is a tour de force that documents the life's work of Barbara Smith and the freedom struggles she shaped."
         -- Duchess Harris, author of Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Obama