"Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow th...

No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.
~ Bell hooks ~












No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too m...
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