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Mae Gwendolyn Henderson

  • It is not that black women ... have had nothing to say, but rather that they have had no say.

    • Mae Gwendolyn Henderson,
    • "Speaking in Tongues: Dialogics, Dialectics, and the Black Woman Writer's Literary Tradition," in Cheryl A. Wall, Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women ()

Mae Gwendolyn Henderson, U.S. writer, educator, scholar