"There’s also very little room for diverse expressions of black female identity. There is a place in society for a black man who comes off as uneducated but street-smart. That is respected in a certain kind of way. And there’s also the Obama model of the black man who’s been to the Ivy League. There’s a lot of room. But I feel like with black women, when it comes to credibility, that respectability is crucial."
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On Black female identity in “If I Can’t Cry, Nobody Cries: An Interview with Tayari Jones” in The Paris Review (2018 Feb 8)
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