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“Reading for Revolution” from: Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) by Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) with Ekwueme Michael Thelwell. Copyright © 2003 by Kwame Ture and Ekwueme Michael Thelwell. Reprinted with the permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.
“Twenty-One”: excerpt from “From an Interview” from In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker. Copyright © 1973 by Alice Walker. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company; and by permission of The Joy Harris Literary Agency, Inc. All rights reserved.
“A Temporary Library in a Small Place”: from A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid. Copyright © 1988 by Jamaica Kincaid. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
Editor’s Note: sourced from a press release posted on “The Official Website of the Government of Antigua and Barbuda.”
“What Is an African American Classic?”: by Henry Louis Gates Jr. copyright © 2008 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., General Introduction from Twelve Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup. Used by permission of Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
“New Black Scribe”: from “Introduction,” copyright © 1990 by Terry McMillan, from Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction, edited by Terry McMillan. Used by permission of Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC; and by permission of The Friedrich Agency. Accessed from a reprint in The African American Book of Values, edited by Steven Barboza (Doubleday, 1998).
“MFA vs. POC,” copyright © 2014 by Junot Díaz. First published in Dismantle: An Anthology of Writing from the VONA Voices Writing Workshop (Thread Makes Blanket Press; 2014). Accessed from the Page-Turner blog of The New Yorker, April 30, 2014. Reprinted by permission of Aragi, Inc., literary agency, New York, NY. For more information about VONA, visit vonacommunity.orgcommunity/index.php.
“Create Dangerously”: from Create Dangerously, by Edwidge Danticat, Princeton University Press. Copyright © 2010 by Edwidge Danticat. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.
“How to Write”: by Colson Whitehead. A version of this op-ed appeared in print on July 29, 2012, on page BR8 of the New York Times Book Review with the headline: “How to Write.” Copyright © 2012 The New York Times. All rights reserved. Used by permission and protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States. The printing, copying, redistribution, or retransmission of the Content without express written permission is prohibited.
“From Jamaica to Minnesota to Myself”: by Marlon James. A version of this article dated March 10, 2015, appeared in the New York Times on March 15, 2015, on page MM60 of the Sunday Magazine with the headline: “Breaking Out.” Copyright © 2015 The New York Times. All rights reserved. Used by permission and protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States. The printing, copying, redistribution, or retransmission of the Content without express written permission is prohibited.
“I Once Was Miss America”: excerpted from Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay. Copyright © 2014 by Roxane Gay. Reprinted with permission of HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY, and by Little, Brown Book Group Limited, London. All rights reserved.
“The Mecca”: excerpt from Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, copyright © 2015 by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Used by permission of Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
“The Danger of the Single Story”: by Chimamanda Adichie. Copyright © 2009 by Chimamanda Adichie, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.
BONUS FEATURE
“What Books Mean to Me,” by Michiko Kakutani, from the New York Times, January 16, 2017, on Page A15 with the headline: “Obama on Books That Guided Him,” copyright © 2017 The New York Times. All rights reserved. Used by permission and protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States. The printing, copying, redistribution, or retransmission of the Content without express written permission is prohibited.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Gratitude to all whose soaring spirits are included in this anthology.
To all who read it—you!
And we thank “the village” …
For making it happen:
• Victoria Sanders & Associates: Victoria Sanders, Bernadette Baker, Deborah Jayne
• 37 Ink | Atria Books | Simon & Schuster: Judith Curr, Dawn Davis, Yona Deshommes, Lindsay Newton, Mark LaFlaur, Lourdes Lopez, Patricia Callahan, Kristen Strange, and Lisa Nicholas
• Deirdre Smerillo of Smerillo Associates
• All the publishers, agents, and administrators who granted rights and permissions
For sending me the Foreword before even saying yes:
• My favorite poet and cherished friend, Nikki Giovanni
• Thanks to Virginia Fowler, too.
For the resources and research:
• Anguilla Library Services: Jansie Webster, Anthea Roach
• Seattle Public Library: Douglass-Truth Branch, Central Main Library
For the encouraging word:
Shelia Baynes
Amy Berkower & Dan Weiss
Rene Boatman of Toni Morrison’s office
Dan & Blythe Brown
Carolyn Denard
Audrey Edwards
dream hampton
Winona Hauge
Sherille & Franklin Hughes
Melinda Goddard & Terry Brady
Chris Jackson
Benilde Little
Susan Long-Walsh
Rick Simonson
Geraldine Smith
Marlene F. Watson
Erlene Berry Wilson
Anguilla Lit Fest Committee:
Candis Niles
Sherille Hughes
Carrolle Devonish
Jahia Semeria-Esposito
Kay Ferguson
Collette Jones-Chin
Ronya Foy-Connor
Carla Harris
Trudy Nixon
Reginald Oliver
Anthea Roach
Jansie Webster
Pam Webster
For crowdsourcing the choice of title on Facebook:
Marisol Alfaro, Adunni Anderson, Amena Oliver Anderson, Andrea Anderson, Sue Annetts, Florence Anthony, Joyce Altaras, Jennifer Atherley, Cerise Banks, Oluwakemi Linda Banks, Shelia T. Baynes, Deborah Boomer, Sharon Breland, Anique Oliver Brewer, John Phillip Burns, Alta Cannady, Janice Carter, Veronica Chambers, Ahmondyllah Cole, Mikel Colson, Copper Cunningham, Sarah Dean, Rachel Christmas Derrick, Yona Deshommes, Suzan Williams Donahue, Yvonne Durant, Janine Edwards, Aleta Felder, Lauren Francis-Sharma, the late Arlene Bailey Franklin, Richard L. Gant, Melinda Goddard, Mondella Jones, Joyce Harley, Aleeyah Oliver Hatcher, Audrey Horn, Ziba Kashif, Linda Marie Kessler, Meko Lawson, Andrea Lloyd, Susan Long-Walsh, Eugene Mackey, James A. Manning, Sandra Martin, Claire McIntosh, Trudy Nixon, Reginald Oliver, Renee Oliver, Bahia Oliver-Mays, Cathy Ranieri, Bonnie Richardson-Lake, Teresa Ridley, Lorraine T. Rowe, Victoria Sanders, Geoff Simmons, Sandra Sims, Henry Smith, Tracey Brown Stephens, TaRessa Stovall, Anthony Thomas, Linda Villarosa, Paula Ward, Leslie Williams, Carla Wills, Charles Wilson, Andre S. Wooten, Verleeta Wooten, Phyllis Yasutake
The family cheerleaders:
My husband, Reginald Oliver
Anique Oliver Brewer & Jonathan Brewer
Ahmondyllah & Shawn Cole
Aleeyah & Solomon Hatcher
Amena Oliver
Malcolm Oliver
Andre & Daphne Wooten
Vicki Stokes
Gloria Leonard
To the memory of my late dad, Judge Charles M. Stokes, reading his daily Seattle Times, GQ, Time, and researching in his law volumes
In the beginning was the Word: The first words I heard were those of my mother’s voice, reading bedtime stories to my brother, sister, and me. Loving gratitude to my mother, Josephine S
tokes, the grade-school teacher, librarian, and reading specialist who instilled in her children and grandchildren the love of books from womb to tomb.
For giving me hope in the next generation of readers, my granddaughter: Anzala Olivia Joy Brewer
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Stephanie Stokes Oliver has enjoyed a career spent entirely in magazine and book publishing. Formerly fashion and beauty merchandising editor at Glamour, editor of Essence magazine, editor in chief of Essence.com, and founding editor in chief of Heart & Soul, she most recently served as vice president of Unity Publishing.
Working from Anguilla in the Caribbean and in her American hometown of Seattle, Oliver currently writes books, scouts literary projects, teaches college courses on publishing, coaches authors, and provides editorial services under her consultancy SSO Media. A founding member of the Anguilla Literary Foundation, she is the author curator for the annual Anguilla Lit Fest.
Achieving her greatest desire, to become an author, Oliver has published three previous books: Daily Cornbread: 365 Secrets for a Healthy Mind, Body, and Spirit; Seven Soulful Secrets for Finding Your Purpose and Minding Your Mission; and Song for My Father: Memoir of an All-American Family.
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