Morrison’s impatience with the women’s liberation movement reached its public pitch in a 1971 essay for the New York Times. Though titled “What the Black Woman Thinks About Women’s Lib,” Morrison worries if the very category of “the” Black woman can exist without disavowing, ignoring all those unaligned desires and divergent possessions which make women different from each other. A category, she worries, encourages “lump thinking,” but without one would thinking ever reach its publics? By locating Black feminism’s particular meaning to Morrison in a sampling of letters she exchanged with other Black women across the 1980s, this section affirms Morrison and her addressees inventing themselves differently, and in correspondence, figuring out where and when they fit together, and on what grounds.