More importantly, Golden’s words resonate because of her intrinsic ability and immense talent to make people feel. Golden how much her words and the words of the 14 other Black women writers whose work comprised the book resonated with me and to that she responded, “You must have an old soul.” While Golden’s assessment about my “old soul” was correct, the reason why her literature resonates with myself and so many others is also a testament to her literary genius and even her skillful mastery to make her words, her life, and her creativity known, heard, and seen. I couldn’t stop reading it––I read the book in a day. Marita Golden was Wild Women Don’t Wear No Blues: Black Women Writers On Love, Men and Sex, which she edited and was published in 1993.
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