Brittany Luce

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It felt like a full circle moment to be like, oh my God, these are the conversations I was always trying to like ear hustle on.

And now they are not quite the same as the conversations that I have with my friends, but some aspects of them still feel true in ways.

I'm happy to be here today.

I'm excited about this conversation.

Yeah, I mean, like, I couldn't follow or didn't care about a lot of details that were in the book.

Like, marriage, divorce, husband, those things were not very relevant to my daily life.

So far away.

But it felt like the epitome of grown folks business.

But Waiting to Exhale, I mean, Parker's absolutely right.

It's like, it is a foundational text for Black American women.

And for women our age, this is like the backdrop of your childhood, essentially.

Whether you've seen the movie or read the book or not, they're inescapable.

You mean the movie about all the black women living in Arizona in their 30s was not for you?

Oh, absolutely.

Like, I am now the age of the characters in the book.

We are now the grown folks.

We are now in grown folks' business.

There's some things about it, like, where the contours of the story, I understood aspects of them as a child, even though, like, I very much lived a child's life.