I Just Keep Talking presents Painter in full, gathering personal reflections, scholarly essays and images spanning several decades to convey the range of her interests and ambition ... The essays in I Just Keep Talking show her repeatedly drawing attention to a plurality of Black American experiences.
Nell Irvin Painter addresses readers in a voice brimming with knowledge, clarity and, most delightfully, confidence ... Painter puts muscle and heart into history so that her readers can easily, but thoughtfully, draw the lines between past and present. Her history is inclusive, not in a pandering or self-consciously correct way, but because her artful telling of it is full of complexity that’s both beautiful and bracing.
