Because of Toni Morrison, I Will Never Be a Writer

Ezinne Ukoha
5 min readAug 6, 2019

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I started writing after my grandfather passed away. I was ten years old and despite being quite young, I was very much aware of the fact that life can happen to you and whether or not you are able to receive what it doles out has very little to do with its justifications.

Poetry was my sounding board and blissful escape. I still remember how my heart pounded with fury as my…

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