“Always in the middle of our bloodiest battles you lay down your arms like flowering mines to conqueror me home.”
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
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