Everyone was spellbound. Dr. Latimer was entranced, and, turning to Hon. Dugdale, said, in a low voice and with deep-drawn breath," She is angelic!...She is strangely beautiful!...The tones of her voice are like benedictions of peace; her words a call to higher service and nobler life."
-Iola Leroy, written by Francis E.W. Harper. 1892
When I was thirteen I fell in love with African American Women's Literature. The novel that done me in was Alice Walker's A Color Purple. In under grad I knew there is a God when Agnes Scott College offered a course called Black Feminist Thought. What I didn't know was that my soul would leap for a more womanist kind of fiction- Christian Fiction. More...
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