“It’s a tremendous honor and responsibility to be a writer, an artist, a culture worker… whatever you wanna call this location. One’s got to see what the factory worker sees, what the prisoner sees, what the welfare children see, what the scholar sees,got to see what the ruling-class mythmaker see as well, in order to tell the truth and not get trapped. got to see more and dare more.”
-Toni Cade Bambara, Black Women Writers at Work