The Creative Mind

Le Silence, 1895 — Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer

“Honestly, I haven’t fully embraced that idea that I’m a writer — even though I’ve been writing since I was a child, have two degrees in writing, worked as a writer for 10 years, written for numerous publications including Essence magazine and The New York Times, and wrote a novel. I’ve been thinking about why that might be. This may be inflammatory to say, but I think the United States, as an empire, despises writers. Perhaps, it despises all artists —…