Quintessa Knight, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/quintessa-knight/ A Home for Black Women Writers Thu, 06 Oct 2022 02:03:25 +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 Quintessa Knight, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/quintessa-knight/ 32 32 153713158 My Name & Other Things You Can’t Take Away From Me https://www.midnightandindigo.com/take-away-from-me/ Thu, 06 Oct 2022 01:56:32 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=78630 My 10th grade English Lit teacher cannot pronounce my name. Ironic? I know. So, on the third week of class, I hold my breath and listen as he gets through the roll call of Howards, Johnsons, and Jacksons, slowly approaching the K surnames.  I feel the silence building around me as everyone prepares to hear his latest attempt. I’m the homeroom punchline. Whatever he calls me today will last through lunch. I may hear it once or twice on the bus if I’m extremely unlucky. So I close my eyes, hoping I can go far enough away inside my head

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