![]() All the Black women who’ve understood what their words were worth, particularly in times when the world was trying to convince them otherwise. Get to know her.Īlice Walker, Toni Morrison, Toni Cade Bambara, Zora Neale Hurston. Having drawn in a “congregation” of over 140,000 followers in a year and a half, Riley is releasing her debut novel, “THIS HERE FLESH,” published by Penguin Random House later this month. And very quickly a community much larger than I had an imagination for began to form,” she says. So I began connecting Black literature and poems, sometimes with prayers, sometimes with a breath practice. I had belonged to white-dominated, Christian spaces for long enough that I was desperate for a community of spiritual liberation. ![]() “I was hungry for a spiritual space where Black grief, Black anger, my Black body was honored in a meaningful way. ![]()
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