Ayana Mathis

For T Magazine’s 2018 Greats issue, Ayana Mathis interviews vocalist Solange Knowles as she prepares to release a new album.

An essay excerpted from Robin Romm’s forthcoming anthology Double Bind: Women on Ambition in which The Twelve Tribes of Hattie novelist Ayana Mathis considers the writing ambitions she often hasn’t felt entitled to–even after Oprah Winfrey chose her book as an Oprah 2.0 pick.