In the racism of the white against the black, the black assimilates the white's values in order to become like him and diminish or dissimulate the differences. In the assimilation of the value of the other, the black annuls himself as a person, losing the possibility of improving what he is. The general tendency of the black woman writer is to engage herself in the man's struggle, calling it a general one. So the specificity of being a woman writer that emerges in the work passes without notice. Art is a universe.
Genre is a form of expression.
I can express myself through this genre without impeding the permeating and traversing of my feminine and black qualities. I don't need to be talking about whips and slavery to write black literature. Art is freedom, liberation. My art is engaged with me. I am a black, a woman, a single mother, an entrepreneur, a daughter, a public servant, a militant.