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Marita Golden

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Marita Golden (born April 28, 1950) is an award-winning novelist, nonfiction writer, distinguished teacher of writing and co-founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, a national organization that serves as a resource center for African-American writers.

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How To Become A Black Writer The Blog / The Book

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The new teacher was a woman of late middle age whose dour visage looked out on the assembled students in her class like a vicar searching for signs of heresy. The unease and tension that many years later I was to find permeating the atmosphere of so many writer’s workshops in MFA graduate programs was the air we all breathed in that classroom. We were in boot

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Average rating: 4.1 · 5,926 ratings · 656 reviews · 31 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Wide Circumference of Love 4.05 avg rating — 1,877 ratings — published 2017 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Don't Play in the Sun: One Woman's Journey Through the Color Complex 4.12 avg rating — 339 ratings — published 2004 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women 4.32 avg rating — 183 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Migrations of the Heart 4.21 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 1983 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing 4.40 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues: Black Women Writers on Love, Men and Sex 4.24 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1993 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After 3.63 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2006 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Long Distance Life 4.08 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1989 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Woman's Place 4.14 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1986 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	And Do Remember Me: A Novel 4.04 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1992 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.”
― Marita Golden, Migrations of the Heart

tags: dedications, father, memory, mother, parents, remember, stories

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“My life is too important to share with someone who can't understand it.”
― marita golden

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“Everything I have learned about love, I learned from my mother. For it is mothers who bend, twist, flex, and break most dramatically before our uninitiated eyes. Fathers bear, conceal, inflict, sometimes vanish, so the mythology of domestic union tells us. But mothers absorb, accept, give in, all to tutor daughters in the syntax, the grammar of yearning and love.”
― Marita Golden, Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues: Black Women Writers on Love, Men and Sex

tags: mother-s-day, mothers-and-daughters, mothers-love, women-s-strength

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