Saving the life that is your own: the importance of models in the artist's life
The Black writer and the Southern experience
"But yet and still the cotton gin kept on working"
A talk: convocation
Beyond the peacock: the reconstruction of Flannery O'Connor
The divided life of Jean Toomer
A writer because of, not in spite of, her children
"Gifts of Power: the Writings of Rebecca Jackson"
Zora Neale Hurston: a cautionary tale and a partisan view
Looking for Zora
The Civil Rights movement: what good was it?
The unglamorous but worthwhile duties of the Black revolutionary artist, or of the Black writer who simply works and writes
"The Almost Year"
Choice: a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
Coretta King: revisited
Choosing to stay at home: ten years after the March on Washington
"Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Writings of Social Protest"
Making the movies and the movies we want
Lulls
My father's country is the poor
Recording the seasons
In search of our mothers' gardens
From an interview
a letter to the editor of Ms.
Breaking chains and encouraging life
If the present looks like the past, what does the future look like?
Looking to the side, and back
To "The Black Scholar"
Brothers and sisters
Silver writes
Only justice can stop a curse
"Nuclear Madness: What You Can Do"
To the editors of Ms. magazine
Writing "The Color Purple"
"One" child of one's own: a meaningful digression within the work(s)
Beauty: when the other dancer is the self.