Ocupation: Author
Life: December 12, 1943 - June 25, 2000
Birthday: December 12
Death: June 25
I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I mean that literally. For me literature is a way of knowing that I am not hallucinating, that whatever I feel/know is.
source: Barbara Christian (2010). “New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000”, p.49, University of Illinois Press