spirituality

In the last chapter of Toni Morrison’s Spiritual Vision: Faith, Folktales and Feminism in Her Life and Literature (Fortress Press, 2021), Nadra Nittle writes that “[by] placing…Black women storytellers, seers, healers, and root workers in pivotal roles in her ‘village literature,’ Morrison demonstrated that the African-based cultural practices [that Black women] engaged in had real power too.”

In falling in love with my girlfriend’s religion, I was able to make peace with my own.

There was no place like home, one’s home, one’s ancestral home, especially when one’s first name was Echezona: “Do not forget.”

My friend Ram Dass used to practice turning people into trees.