This piece was delivered as the keynote address for Kweli Journal’s Summer Literary Festival. The theme of this festival is Intimacies. You can sign up for more talks and workshops here. When I first started writing seriously, over ten years ago now, I got a note on my manuscript that has stayed with me for a long time. I’d written the first pages of what would become my first novel,
I’m so grateful to you for articulation of the tension that I often feel being a Black woman in the U.S. You’ve laid bare my interior in a way I never expected to see so neatly. THANK YOU!
whew! Kaitlyn i just read Libertie and umm i think u have feeling down!! lmao i cried and smiled every other section :,) beautiful book. love to u from someone else who grew up in a home that taught me to detach emotionally 🤗🤗🤗
I’m so grateful to you for articulation of the tension that I often feel being a Black woman in the U.S. You’ve laid bare my interior in a way I never expected to see so neatly. THANK YOU!
Wow! Thank you for sharing this Leslie. I feel honored
whew! Kaitlyn i just read Libertie and umm i think u have feeling down!! lmao i cried and smiled every other section :,) beautiful book. love to u from someone else who grew up in a home that taught me to detach emotionally 🤗🤗🤗
thank you!
Kaitlyn! Thank you for this work!
Chris! Long time no see! Thank you for reading!
You always make me think. Thank you.