vintageanchor:

“I’m already discredited. I’m already politicised, before I get out of the gate. I can accept the labels because being a black woman writer is not a shallow place but a rich place to write from. It doesn’t limit my imagination; it expands it.”
—Toni Morrison (when asked if she found it limiting to be described as a black woman writer)

vintageanchor:

“I’m already discredited. I’m already politicised, before I get out of the gate. I can accept the labels because being a black woman writer is not a shallow place but a rich place to write from. It doesn’t limit my imagination; it expands it.”

—Toni Morrison (when asked if she found it limiting to be described as a black woman writer)

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    I need to always remember these words from Toni. Because when I get in my own head, it stops me before I ever get out...
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