This collection of journals from the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author combines her personal life with political events and traces her development as an artist activist and intellectual.
Introduction
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Valerie Boyd
Part One Marriage, Movement, and Mississippi / The 1960s
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Part Two The Nature of This Flower Is to Bloom / The 1970s
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Part Three Be Nobody's Darling / The 1980s
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Part Four You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down / The 1990s