“I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.”
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Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.