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Book Review – Trading Dreams at Midnight by Diane McKinney-Whetstone

February 12, 2013

“No matter how long you have your mother, it’s never long enough.” Diane McKinney-Whetstone is already one of my favorite authors of all time. Blues Dancing and Tempest Rising were novels that deeply affected me in my early 20s. So why did it take nearly five years to read Trading Dreams at Midnight? When it [...]

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I do not weep at the world. I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

January 8, 2013

Their Eyes Were Watching God. The Bluest Eye. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. These were books that made a little Black girl in Oakland hungry for more. Made her eyes open wide with wonder, eager to gobble up more words, more pages, more books. Made her feel, while waiting in the dentist office, [...]

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In the beginning…

December 21, 2012

In the beginning, people would say, ‘Do you regard yourself as a black writer, or as a writer?’ and they also used the word woman with it – woman writer. So at first I was glib and said I’m a black woman writer, because I understood that they were trying to suggest that I was [...]

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December 21, 2012

Black feminist thought is not simply an interest group advocating for powerful Black women, it is about seeing the world with a vision of liberation. At least it should be… And, Toni Morrison is everything. She announces to the world that the very best, the most profound, the most beautiful and the deepest cutting words [...]

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Summer by Tananarive Due

December 19, 2012

Summer by Tananarive Due Check out this chilling short story reprinted in Nightmare magazine.

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Oprah Picks The Twelve Tribes of Hattie for her book club

December 5, 2012

Oprah Picks The Twelve Tribes of Hattie for her book club Sounds very, very interesting. Can’t wait to pick this one up.

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A writer’s manifesto

November 26, 2012

jvictoriawrites: If you want to write for a living, you will lose friends and lovers. The chance you will be rich and famous is miniscule. It is hard work and it feels like you are always splaying your innards out for the world to see. Write anyway. You can write the story, you can not [...]

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Writers Like Me

November 14, 2012

Writers Like Me “The business is full of fiction writers like me. With one difference: I’m black, born and raised in the United States. At the parties and conferences I attend, and in the book reviews I read, I rarely encounter other African-American “literary” writers, particularly in my age bracket.”

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Omar Tyree’s ‘Flyy Girl’ to hit the big screen

November 2, 2012

Omar Tyree’s ‘Flyy Girl’ to hit the big screen Wow. I remember reading this in the 10th grade. Don’t quite remember what happened in the book but I’m still curious as to how this will turn out. Interesting to see that books by E. Lynn Harris and Mary Morrison may hit the big screen in [...]

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November 1, 2012

My mother had warned that if I dated a British girl, I might eventually marry one. A British woman wouldn’t know how to comb our young daughter’s hair. My mum would raise her eyes subtly to point out the half-British/half-West Indian girls in the supermarket with knots in their heads. My father said my half-British [...]

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