Is there any good book written by a black woman?

SIEGE by James Mason

literally no

Memes-R-Us by Thomas Pynchone

The Homeric epics

Does anyone else want to have a threesome those statues? Those hard, sculpted (no pun intended) bodies make my cock hard

Would you say they make you rock hard? Also, 4some.

please remove this picture I'm on noporn

that's a piece of rock, user

something something freud something something

got em

Woah, the hair on that guy's leg looks like it's drawing a piece of rock

A Wrinkle In Time by Oprah Winfrey

I can't believe this is the only serious reply, thanks for carrying the fire, I pity the state of this place.

what would you recommend?

I literally just finished reading Song of Solomon, so I can only speak of how well Toni Morrison's books are, and they're an absolute pleasure to read.

I suppose anything is better than a meme reply though, it's terrible when I can't tell the difference between /s4s/ and Veeky Forums.

yeah Toni Morrison is pretty fucking good.

Read Song of Solomon, it's a beautiful book

>im so angry to see that there are meme replies to a meme thread

i have song of solomon on my shelf, i just haven't read it yet. i was just asking because i don't know many black female authors that are worthwhile and i'd like to expand my knowledge of this area. i can offer a black male poet that i'd recommend, Tyehimba Jess. His poetry collection "leadbelly" is fantastic.

isn't she indian or something?

I came here to say this.
Pretty sure a black woman wrote it and Francis Bacon was the editor and helped to have it published.

Also I am kind of serious.

that's just as likely as getting hit by a bus full of lottery winners

The theory that Francis Bacon was the author has a pretty large occult background. A lot of authors use pseudonyms, it is more likely then that. But it is just a theory and the black woman part is even more occult. But it is possible and very interesting, nonetheless. Here is a suggestion: Maya Angelou. Also kind of related is a book called "Black Like Me" it is written by a white dude, but it is good and like I said kind of relevant.

the idea that francis bacon would have seen a black woman as anything more than a dressed animal, to the point of acknowledging literary merit in her work and wanting to edit it, is just ignorant of history, I'm sorry.

You're ignorant of humanity.

snopes.com/amelia-bassano-william-shakespeare/
Morocco is in north Africa. This lady was was African, she may not have been jet black like Wesley Snipes but she was of Italian, Sephardi and Moroccan descent.

African rulers sold there slaves to the Europeans. The word slave has origins with the word slav, the slavic people took greeks as slaves. The brutality and political theory that we correlate with slavery in America was developed as a result of slavery in america. Bacon would have regarded a slave as an animal, but a light skinned Moroccan/Italian Jew with ties to aristocracy , he would have regarded as nearly equal and worthy. I could write an essay and do a dep research to explainmy point, but you don't give a shit. Read between the lines and you might understand whaat my point is, regardless of the shakespeare theory.

auntjemimahpost.com/tag/sir-francis-bacon/ - here's a source that talks about the history of american slavery and the descent of racism.

Before the american brutality towards their african slaves and the political theories propped by darwinism etc. that africans are not human, there was a point where actual culture regardless of race was the deciding factor to whether you were regarded as a lesser human.

Ok but you're mixing two different things. I can agree that
> a light skinned Moroccan/Italian Jew with ties to aristocracy , he would have regarded as nearly equal and worthy.
But at the same time, that person would not have qualified as "a black woman", in any discernible way. Here's what an italian with ties to the aristocracy from the time looked like:

well I mean the greek masters who taught rich roman's kids were still regarded as slaves, maybe a little bit better than their manual workers peer, but not by much

Yeah only like 10,000 years

That is my point. She is a candidate to be "The Dark Lady" I said she was wesley snipes black, but strip her of her aristocratic titles and put her next to an anglo-saxon and she is a black woman. I wasn't mixing anything. And all those portraits were white faced like iyou implied that racism was always prevelant in history my point is that she was dark skinned more so than her portrait mos def and she was hlaf african. At the end of the day we agree that before american slavvery and its political theories became universal it was class that had more influence on whether you were regarded as a lesser human and we can see that this theory that Shakespeare was written by a collabrative group headed by bacon and a "Dark Lady" contributed is very possible. King James the guy who commissioned the bible was also probably a contributor to the publishing of shakespeare in this theory. It was a group of people. (I am not writing in a very coherent manner I apologize) All this to say it is possible that a "Dark Lady" may have contributed to the authorship of shakespeare and William was the man on the stage who could barely hand write legibly. In the eyes of a brutal farmer with slaves this light skinned moracan/italian was most definitely a "black woamn' and an animal as you implied Bacon would have regarded her. ... Again forgive my sloppiness and I appreciate the debate. I admit this isa pretty wild theory and I don't subscribe to it 100% I just find it very fascinating and this is really inspiring me to actually want to sit down and write a paper about the possibility that a "Dark Lady" contribbuted to the authroship of shakespeare as well as delve into the history of slavery and racism. It is a very complex topic.

>Still hoping a bus full of lottery winners hits me though

>coreection
wasn't* wesley.....

Also like to point out the incredible influence egypt has had on modern/western culture/society and that they were dark skinned and at one point had light skinned slaves. Just to enforce the idea that class had more influence on cultural prejudices than race did before the colonization of the americas. And a lot of the brutality in america started because black african nobility sold europeans slaves and the anglo-saxons inherited them from spanairds so the relationships were so far removed it was easy for them to regard the slaves acquired through the atlantic slave trade as mere "clothed animals". But the majority of slavery was pretty humane outside of the atlantic slave trade, like if you needed help and you acquired a slave as help you would have a personal connection and would develop a relationship with these humans. History is so chaotic aand the highlights are always the worst annals of history. lol i know my prose is probably so incoherent but you might beable to catch my drift.

And Their Eyes were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston

I guess I'd like to expand on what i said about egyptians being dark and having light slaves. Egypt was amelting pot and the sslaves were treated like humans for the most part and the upper class were of all complexions and so were the slave class, but it is still not false to say that dark skinned egyptians had rulership over light skinned virtually white slaves. I am truly of the thinking that all complexions have been around since the beginning of history and we have always loved and hated eachother for reasons including race but not nearly limited to it and race didn't become that much of an issue in our psyche until the whispers of the new world became public knowledge and racism become a necessary weapon to wield control over the lower classes which included all races itself..

my diary nigga

>are there any good... black women?
no

theroot.com/discovery-of-1st-black-female-novelist-1790898171

The Bondwoman's Narrative - Hannah Crafts

>all those portraits were white faced
I'm italian, most of us are about that pale.

youre completely right

Passing was a good book

Moroccan/Italian is what i meant, I guess saying all was amistake aand what i meant was like if someone was brownish they would use a shade lighter type shit like getting the lighting right in a photo or pulling an MJ but i admit that statement is a couch blanket that barely fits over your legs with a bunch of holes in it .

I fart when i write sometimes. I talk out of my ass sometimes.C'mon man I am implying that a dark lady, king james, francis bacon and some other aristocrats and freemasons and rosicrucians and shit wrote shakespeare and willy was just the actor on stage everything i said was hogwash hodgepodge hocus pocus. But I like the idea man and i don't like to think every white person of importance before 1970 was a racist bastard.

Fpbp

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Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, and Sula, by Toni Morrison

It shall be of jasper and coral, Love-across-a-hundred-lives, The Amputated Memory, by Werewere Liking

goddamn those statue women are sexy

Their Eyes Were Watching God