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“In a real way, the trauma wiped the slate clean for me mentally. And that’s when I started the process of teaching myself to take myself seriously. By extension, I could start to take other black women seriously.” –Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom
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“Nothing opens the mind and heart to a spiritual experience like solitude. It may not always be easy, and there will undoubtedly be some lonesome, wistful moments, but it is these very moments that allow a spiritual journey to unfold.”
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“I honestly believed at the beginning of my memoir journey that writing my story would enable me to let it go. Leave it behind me somewhere. I was secretly hoping these writers would confirm this belief. They didn’t.”
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“It’s kind of related to this concept that Gloria Steinem writes about, the idea that we are linked, not ranked.”
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I saw how criticism might allow me to say things about myself, without actually ‘saying’ them. There’s an innate indirectness to book reviewing — you’re writing about someone else’s book — but that indirectness creates a space for subtle self-exploration.
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