Sep 23, 2026
“I’m just myself. It’s only when I leave the front door that I become a black woman to the world.” — Bonnie Greer | Quote of the Day
Bonnie Greer — the Chicago-born playwright, novelist and critic who moved to Britain in 1986, won the Verity Bargate Award for her play Munda Negra, was appointed OBE in 2010 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022, and died on September 15, 2026, at 77 — on the distance between the self she woke up as and the self the world insisted on naming. From a 2016 Guardian interview, it is a quiet, exact statement about identity, race and who gets to do the defining.