SOLANGE by BEYONCÉ for Interview Magazine. It was very intentional that I sang as a woman who was very in control, a woman who could have this conversation without yelling and screaming, because I still often feel that when black women try to have these conversations, we are not portrayed as in control, emotionally intact women, capable of having the hard conversations without losing that control.

Monday, April 30, 2012. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks. Writing is my time machine, takes me to the precise time and place I belong.

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This is what you find that people see you as. Then, your can either embrace or rebut that stereotype with what you choose to write on the chalkboard.