Contents
The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action (1977)
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power (1978)
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House (1979)
Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface (1979)
The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism (1981)
I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities (1985)
A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer (1988)
Is Your Hair Still Political? (1990)
Difference and Survival: An Address at Hunter College (undated)
Now that I Am Forever with Child
To a Girl Who Knew What Side Her Bread Was Buttered On
from FROM A LAND WHERE OTHER PEOPLE LIVE (1973)
Moving Out or The End of Cooperative Living
from NEW YORK HEAD SHOP AND MUSEUM (1974)
The American Cancer Society Or There Is More Than One Way To Skin A Coon
A Sewerplant Grows In Harlem Or I’m A Stranger Here Myself When Does The Next Swan Leave
One Year To Life On The Grand Central Shuttle
The Workers Rose On May Day Or Postscript To Karl Marx
Cables to Rage or I’ve Been Talking on This Street Corner a Hell of a Long Time
To The Girl Who Lives In A Tree
Revolution Is One Form Of Social Change
The Brown Menace Or Poem To The Survival of Roaches
from BETWEEN OUR SELVES (1976)
But What Can You Teach My Daughter
“Never Take Fire from a Woman”
from CHOSEN POEMS: OLD AND NEW (1982)
from OUR DEAD BEHIND US (1986)
To the Poet Who Happens to Be Black and the Black Poet Who Happens to Be a Woman
There Are No Honest Poems About Dead Women