"No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough." - bell hooks

We are encouraged to see honest people as naive, as potential losers.

To be an oppressor is dehumanizing and anti-human in nature, as it is to be a victim.

I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it is, to be very isolating... because I think that especially for black women, the more we rise from the bottom, the more we move and journey, the more we are the targets of the most brutal and vicious attacks.