"I found Toni Morrison's Bluest Eye when I was 12, and on the cover I saw a little black girl on a porch like the one I had, with a hairstyle I had. So it looked like it could've been me," Buchanan recalled.
"Toni Morrison, Angela Davis, Sonia Sanchez, Gwendolyn Brooks, Michelle Obama ... I understood that if these people are real, then I can do this!" she said.
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