There is no set of years in which to be born Black and woman would not be met with violence.
—Christina Sharpe, "Note 232"
Hesitation and restraint make tenderness and generosity and altruistic interaction possible and even likely. Hesitation and restraint quiver quietly alive someplace opposite to violence and domination.
—June Jordan, "We Are All Refugees"
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BORN IN BABYLON
Non-FictionMy school of indifference opened and never closed; I remained its only student. BORN IN BABYLON is a collection of short essays, fragments, prose, creative nonfiction, and other miscellany regarding Blackness, womanhood, memory, identity, and Americ...
