Why do Black writers speak to me on a level like no others? Why is there a correlation for me in illiteracy and race? Why have I spent years using examples from Black history and culture to show difference in every way? Why we have to want difference to finally have history. What Zora Neale Hurston's writing means to me.
I've written various companion pieces in the last few weeks on Essays in Awareness on drnaoiseoreilly dot org
