Jamila
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Hello.
So wonderful to meet you, Oprah and Catherine.
Oh.
Jamila, I'm so excited to hear your take on this story.
I love this story.
I'm a Southern girl, too.
I'm from Mobile, Alabama.
And Catherine Mobile got a tiny shout out in the book.
Yeah.
And just really reflecting on this time and places I've been and visited because I grew up on the Gulf Coast.
So all those areas, Biloxi, Jackson, New Orleans, Oxford, very familiar to me.
And it was a wonderful kind of flashback into time for me.
I think it's because you know these stories.
So my grandmother, she grew up cleaning white people's houses.
And so some of these stories were very aligned.
And Ophelia in the book kind of reminded me a little bit of my grandmother.
So I think we have some ways we relate to it.
I do.
So...
Tears welled up in my eyes at the end.