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“As a reader, sometimes, I just want to not think. You know, I want to read something that is purely enjoyable: that is, like, escapist.”

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I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African…

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I think that voodoo as a spiritual tradition has been demonized for so long in popular culture. I wanted to write against that and…

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There's so much I love about home, but then there's a lot that I can acknowledge that I dislike about home. And acknowledging that…

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“The dream of her was the glow of a spent fire on a cold night: warm and welcoming.”

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The first writer that I think of immediately that I studied with at Michigan is Peter Ho Davies. He was really important to me,…

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I feel like so much of what happened in the Delta over the decades since slavery was abolished seems much closer in the Delta,…

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“Vines catch my arms, my head; we tear through until we break out into the clearing before the fence, the field, the barn, the…

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“Before all the little mean things she told me gathered and gathered and lodged like grit in a skinned knee.”

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People give the South a bad rap. It's often stereotyped as backwards and close-minded and dogmatic, and all of those things have been true.…

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By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When the events…

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When I was a teenager, I was the only black girl at a small, private Episcopal school, where my tuition was paid by the…

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She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled newborn babies,…

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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