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🗓️ 4 May 2022
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Dolen Perkins Valdez talks about her writing journey. She is now a bestselling author of many books, including #TakeMyHand and #Wench.#KarenHunterShow
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0:00.0 | This is Karen Hunter and welcome to this woman. Why? Because several years ago one of my my |
0:18.7 | buddies Tracy Chirad was like, hmm, what's up girl? I was like, hey, I got a book that you need to read. |
0:25.6 | And I was like, what is it? And she gave me this book, Winch. And I was like, |
0:28.8 | ah, not another book about enslavement or somebody in bondage, this slave trauma porn enough already and |
0:36.8 | then I'm reading it and I couldn't put it down. I think I read it in one day and it messed me up. |
0:42.2 | It was all of the things and I was like I got to get this |
0:45.4 | woman on the show at some point well she's here today author of when she also |
0:50.5 | did the remix or the redo of 12 years of slave and she's got a new book |
0:56.2 | called Take My Hand. Let me welcome the great Dolan Perkins Valdez. |
1:00.1 | Hi. |
1:01.1 | Hi there. |
1:02.1 | Welcome. Thank you. All right before we get into this book and and |
1:08.5 | Tracy and winch and all of this where are you you from? Originally. Memphis, Tennessee. |
1:14.0 | Okay. So growing up in Memphis, Tennessee with the name Dolan, Perkis, Valdez, is that your given |
1:20.0 | name? Did you always have that hyphenators Mr Valdez or there Valdez |
1:23.2 | somebody talk to me now there's is the husband okay okay okay okay okay okay |
1:30.0 | okay all right now growing up in the South at the time that you grew up to |
1:36.2 | envision yourself as an author, who was who was that inspiration? Was it Tony? Was |
1:42.4 | it Zora? it Alice who who was it somebody else well you know growing up I didn't know anything about a Tony Morrison right I didn't know anything about Alice Walker. They didn't teach those writers in school. There was no, now a lot of high schools have African American history. My high school didn't have anything like that. My parents were not literary people so they didn't know |
2:05.8 | anything about a Tony Morrison. I didn't encounter those women until college. So when I was |
2:11.3 | growing up I read read, you know, things that books you could find in the supermarket. |
2:17.0 | So my mother and I would go to the grocery store, and while she shot for groceries, I'd go over and look in the book. |
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