“i knew read sonia sancher. nikki giovanni. audre lorde. before i ever even heard the name charles bukowski. finally, a proper education.”— Nayyirah Waheed, amazon.com
“Memoir and personal narrative are demeaned or considered to be navel-gazing. I have a theory that, for people of color or others who have been cut out of the master narrative, just telling your personal survival tale, your story, is civic engagement. It is a kind of political performance and is real…”— Faith Adiele, therumpus.net