Toni: I do not think I could have stayed here, in the world, if I did not have a way of thinking…which is what #writing is 4 me #romance

“I came at it as not a writer but a reader, and such a story didn’t exist. Every little homely, black girl was a joke, or didn’t exist in literature, and I was eager to read about a story where racism really hurts, and can destroy you…”