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I was writing, writing all the time, in my head, looking out at the world.
She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence.
The gap that was created during those transatlantic voyages hundreds of years ago.
That gap is the matrix of Saudade – The Longing, I think, that all Africans in the West have, that is at the root of the blues and jazz and soul and rap. If you listen you can hear it, elusive, fleeting, full of melancholy anger.
Through her voice I saw a free woman, down on her land, a woman who knew how to kill her own chickens, hunt her own possum, cut her own cotton, fix her own roof, make her own whiskey, walk in her own shoes, and speak her mind, tell her own story.
A black woman.
Ready for the journey.
The Journey.
We should differentiate between criminals who make violent threats online, and trolls who are just arseholes
I've been feminist for most of my life, it is a constantly evolving idea, not something static.
I changed into a quiet girl, with an inner life that burned with such ferocity that I had no words to express it.
When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight.
But to me it contains all of the history of oppression and resistance, of being close to the soil and the sky, of plain speaking. Of The Journey.
There are lots of kinds of feminism, but ultimately it's about letting people be human beings
