From the Book - First edition.
Poetry is not a luxury (1977)
The transformation of silence into language and action (1977)
My mother's mortar (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)
From: The first cities (1988)
Now that I am forever with child
To a girl who knew what side her bread was buttered on
Father and Son and Holy Ghost
From: Cables to rage (1970)
Rooming houses are old women
On a night of the full moon
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)
From: The Black unicorn (1978)
But what can you teach my daughter
From inside an empty purse
"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
The are no honest poems about dead women
From: The marvelous arithmetics of distance (1993)
The politics of addiction
