Dr. Hartman and Toni Morrison are two of the most powerful Black women voices of our time. By building a new narrative more reflective of the Black woman’s true story in the U.S., Morrison and Hartman model how we can navigate oppression of all shapes and sizes (and at all levels of scholarship) and also model how we can share and lift up each other’s work. The true gift and legacy of their work, I believe—for those us alive now and those who will come later who we will never meet—is the fact that we can learn from Morrison and Hartman about how we can thrive and trust each other in perpetuity.