You find out what you love when you are put to the test. If you love it, it stays. If you don’t love it, you allow it to go.

Phyllis Wheatley Peters wrote from the intersection of childhood, womanhood, slave, former slave, married woman, Christian and human being.

Phyllis loved writing. She wrote her entire life. But as a young girl she found herself in the room with some of the most powerful men in the country who thought she was incapable of writing so well.

She showed them who she was and that she was very capable.