A Colored Girl Speaks: Meditations On Race and Other Magical Things
This collection of personal essays are my meditations on race, politics, and culture through the prism of identity, memory, and history.
For My Mother
Mercides Davis Hunter
A woman of uncommon wisdom, my mother was not afraid of anything. By “anything” I don’t mean spirits, bullies, or the darkness that children come to know, but rather she did not fear the powerful. I marveled at the command she had of her world, and so it never occurred to me as a girl that there was anyone more powerful than she.