Collected Essays, Prose, and Stories by Walker, Alice -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Contents Living by the Word

Title Page Dedication Epigraph Preface Journal (April 17, 1984) Am I Blue? Father Trying to See My Sister The Dummy in the Window Longing to Die of Old Age The Old Artist My Big Brother Bill Journal (August 1984) Coming In from the Cold Oppressed Hair Puts a Ceiling on the Brain Dear Joanna In the Closet of the Soul Journal (August 1983, October 1983, January 1984) A Name Is Sometimes an Ancestor Saying Hi, I’m with You A Thousand Words Journey to Nine Miles My Daughter Smokes On Seeing Red Journal (February 12, 1987) Not Only Will Your Teachers Appear, They Will Cook New Foods for You Everything Is a Human Being “Nobody Was Supposed to Survive” All the Bearded Irises of Life Why Did the Balinese Chicken Cross the Road? Journal (June, September 1987) The Universe Responds Publishing Acknowledgements

You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down

Title Page Dedication Epigraph Nineteen Fifty-Five How Did I Get Away with Killing One of the Biggest Lawyers in the State? It Was Easy. Elethia The Lover Petunias Coming Apart Fame The Abortion Porn Advancing Luna—and Ida B. Wells Laurel A Letter of the Times, or Should This Sado-Masochism Be Saved? A Sudden Trip Home in the Spring Source

In Love & Trouble

Title Page Dedication Epigraph Roselily “Really, Doesn’t Crime Pay?” Her Sweet Jerome The Child Who Favored Daughter Everyday Use The Revenge of Hannah Kemhuff The Welcome Table Strong Horse Tea Entertaining God The Diary of an African Nun The Flowers We Drink the Wine in France To Hell with Dying

In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens

Title Page Dedication

Part One

Part Two

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 Moves and the Movies We Want Lulls My Father’s Country Is the Poor Recording the Seasons

Part Three

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

Part Four

Silver Writes Only Justice Can Stop a Curse Nuclear Madness: What You Can Do To the Editors of Ms. Magazine Writing The Color Purple Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self One Child of One’s Own: A Meaningful Digression within the Work(s)

Publication Acknowledgments A Biography of Alice Walker Copyright