A lot of times, as I like to say, I was the only chip in the cookie...I chose to embrace who I am and what I do, and keep my head down and keep writing, and hoped that things would change. But it was lonely in the sense that I was the only. (Beverly Jenkins)

A lot of times, as I like to say, I was the only chip in the cookie...I chose to embrace who I am and what I do, and keep my head down and keep writing, and hoped that things would change. But it was lonely in the sense that I was the only.

Beverly Jenkins

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