Nikita Haynie, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/nikita-haynie/ A Home for Black Women Writers Wed, 05 Jul 2023 04:30:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Nikita Haynie, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/nikita-haynie/ 32 32 153713158 A Black Girl Reading & Writing https://www.midnightandindigo.com/a-black-girl-reading-and-writing/ Wed, 05 Jul 2023 04:01:12 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=78733 “That sense of the sacredness of words, of writing, has been inside my mind, heart and imagination for such a long time. I can no longer remember a world without words on the page calling me…No passion in my life has been as constant, as true as this love” – bell hooks No truer words could have been said to describe my own journey as a Black girl with an affinity for reading and writing. I’ve known since childhood that my devotion to literature and writing was unique, and that my desire to put words to the stories that arose

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