Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better
I am so glad I happened to see this book
Black Women Writers at Work by Claudia Tate
at the public library.
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I was moved with both recognition, and with fear, at Audre Lorde’s comment that “it’s scary because we’ve been through that before. It was called the fifties.”
Then I was moved with that stirring to act, upon reading in print what I have known and been told in different words since Dunbar (High School): “My responsibility is to speak the truth… with as much precision and beauty as possible. … We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.”
And we must not remain silent while the blood of our sisters/brothers/neighbors/communities/fellow human beings is shed.
Sherley Anne Williams reiterates this responsibility of a writer to write as well as one can and to “say as much of the truth…
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