Letter to Michael – The voice of the children – On listening: A good way to hear – Black studies: Bringing back the person – White English/Black English: The politics of translation – American violence and the holy loving spirit – Notes toward a black balancing of love and hatred – On the occasion of a clear and present danger at Yale – Notes of a Barnard dropout – Declaration of an independence I would just as soon not have – Thinking about my poetry – Old stories: New lives – Where is the love? – Against the wall – In the valley of the shadow of death – Beyond apocalypse now – Civil wars – South Africa: Bringing it all back home – Many rivers to cross – Problems of language in a democratic state – The case of the real majority – Report from the Bahamas – Love is not the problem – Nicaragua: Why I had to go there – The difficult miracle of black poetry in America or something like a sonnet for Phillis Wheatley – In our hands – Nobody mean more to me than you and the future life of Willie Jordan – White Tuesday – The mountain and the man who was not God: An essay on the life and ideas of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – America in confrontation with democracy or the meaning of the Jesse Jackson campaign.
