The day I interviewed Toni Morrison (for what would be the first time) I was writing an article for Essence Magazine about the rise of the Black feminist movement. We met in a French restaurant a few blocks from the…
Who are your most influential mentors? In the early 1970’s I was young, gifted, and Black living in New York City and beginning to find my voice as a writer. At a poetry reading, I gave a sheaf of poems…
What did your parents tell you that you could be? My mother Beatrice Lee Reid and my father Francis Sherman Golden made me a writer. 📚 My mother told me when I was 12 years old that one day I…
This year I am celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the publication of my debut book the memoir Migrations of the Heart. I consider the publication of that book to be the official launching of my career as writer and teacher…
In many ways, this is my favorite time of year. Not because of Thanksgiving or Christmas although both of those holidays allow us to celebrate two powerfully positive impulses-giving thanks and giving to others. This is my favorite time of…
