Writers of Color 50 Books Challenge

Stepping in to assure her audience that the author knows better now may read badly to you, but as a queer woman, I certainly appreciate it. I haven't read the book, but if she had put the scene in and hadn't made it clear that she knew better now, you can bet that not only would I never read that book, I'd never read anything else by her, either. I don't need to read books that stigmatize me and repeat hatred for me, I get enough of that in the world as it is. You chose a poor example, I think, unless you intended to express approval for young Marguerite's feelings rather than the mature Angelou's.