Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence is a memoir by American social activist Geoffrey Canada.

Canada concludes that inner-city neighborhoods must enact measures restricting handgun manufacture and possession as well as create safe haven areas for children.

Illustrator Jamar Nicholas and editor Allison Trzop created Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence (A True Story in Black and White), which was released in stores on September 14, 2010.

[5] Publishers Weekly praised the book, stating that "A more powerful depiction of the tragic life of urban children and a more compelling plea to end 'America's war against itself' cannot be imagined.

Asim wrote that "[i]nterspersing his personal memoir with calls for policy reform gives Canada's book a patina of street-cred' that often compensates for his pedestrian language."

[4] The literary magazine San Francisco Book Review praised the graphic novel version, stating: The problem with gang violence is that it is rarely explored in a personal fashion, and from the perspective of the black male as a victim of his society.