“A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.” – Zora Neale Hurston When selecting the titles to be included in My Lit…
If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive. -Audre Lorde I don’t know about…
“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” – Oprah Winfrey Have you ever heard…
Black history isn’t just about the enslavement of Black men, women, and children but also our pursuit of freedom, our fight for fairness, our inventions, innovations,…
I have a large family, but I can only trace it back so far. On my mother’s side, I can go back as far as my…
Recently I picked up Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and four books into the series I think it’s safe to say I’m addicted. Ever since…
Through books, I’d traveled the world a hundreds time over before I reached adulthood, navigating France (Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin) like I navigated my middle…
I dream big and ever since I started My Lit Box I’ve learned to dream bigger. My Lit Box is an idea that came to me…
I grew up as the daughter of immigrants in a small white town in northern Utah that, according to Wikipedia, was 94% White in 1990. Though…
When Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, he reportedly said, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that…