A slow walk of trees (as grandmother would say), hopeless (as grandfather would say)
What the black woman thinks about women's lib
Behind the making of The black book
Rediscovering black history
Rootedness: the ancestor as foundation
Preface to Deep sightings and rescue missions by Toni Cade Bambara
James Baldwin: his voice remembered; life in his language
Speaking of Reynolds Price
To be a black woman: review of Portraits in fact and fiction
The family came first: review of Labor of love, labor of sorrow
Toni Morrison on a book she loves: Gayl Jones's Corregidora
Going home with bitterness and joy: review of South to a very old place by Albert Murray
On The radiance of the king by Camara Laye
Foreword to The Harlem book of the dead
Foreword to Writing red: an anthology of American women writers, 1930-1940
The fisherwoman: Introduction to A kind of rapture: photographs
For a heroic writers movement
Remarks given at the Howard University Charter Day convocation
The future of time: literature and diminished expectations
How can values be taught in the university
The Nobel lecture in literature.
