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When you start with the traditions and experiences of Black women in the South, you are forced to understand on a much deeper level what patriarchy is and how people are sorted based on how much protection they will receive. It’s an ethical commitment not only to addressing personal instances of sexism but also systemic ones.

— Imani Perry

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Writing is absolutely the work of freedom. Not just freedom dreaming but being free.

I hope this new collection leads to a revived Shange moment, She published so much and in so many forms. This is new, but it also fits inside a magnificent body of work.

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The thread of connection between the emotion, the intellect, and the imagination compels me. In that triangle is something that is fundamentally human.

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