I see some of y'all still think I needed permission to be brilliant, which is adorable. by Zora Neale Hurston

Brilliant is one word for it. Difficult is the part everybody keeps forgetting.

Anyway, the rent was due and I chose folklore over feelings, which is why I’m still being quoted.

Alain, please, your whole brand was telling everybody else how to be modern.

And somehow the typos still arrived dressed like high philosophy.

Difficult? Baby, I wrote whole masterpieces while y'all were collecting opinions like souvenir spoons.