Deadline deadline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from deadline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. Barbara Christian, “The Race for Theory”IN AN ESSAY on the uncompromising brilliance of Toni Morrison’s oeuvre, published just months before the passing of this inimitable writer, Namwali Serpell observes: “There are many ways to be ‘difficult’ in this world: stubborn, demanding, inconvenient, complex, troublesome, baffling, illegible. Black womanhood is where they overlap.” Black women have always been difficult for the world, which relentlessly demands their labors, but disdains the exorbitance their labors bring forth.This