Life notes : personal writings by contemporary Black women / edited by Patricia Bell-Scott.
Publisher: New York : Norton, c1994.
ISBN: 039303593X :
Description: 429 p. ; 25 cm.
Subject: African American women.
African American women Biography.
African American women Diaries.
Women, Black Caribbean Area Biography.
Women, Black Caribbean Area Diaries.
Women, Black Biography.
Women, Black Diaries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-429).
Contents: In her womb / Gwendolyn J. Dungy -- Chocolate tears and dreams / Evelyn C. Rosser -- Fire and snow / Deborah E. McDowell -- Myself / Tinuke Oluyomi -- Weeds / Quo Vadis Gex-Breaux -- Arrival / Al -- At and artist's colony / Toi Derricotte -- A sistah outsider / Shamara Shantu Riley -- The sins of our fathers / Dakota Wells -- Oreo blues / Carole Stewart McDonnell -- A hair piece / Paulette M. Caldwell -- Black woman artist becoming / Bell Hooks -- The house that Jill built / Rita Dove. Sometimes a poem is twenty years of memory / Carroll Parrott Blue / At Yaddo / Barbara Smith -- Not letting go of an anchor / viki Radden -- Breaking the ties that bind me / Ann Lynn -- Setting relationship limits / Yin Quilter -- Golden boy / Quo Vadis Gex-Breaux -- Three daughters / Dawn B. Bennett- Alexander -- Reflections of breaking glass / Sapphire -- Love in the time of AIDS / Ama R. Saran -- Writing, screaming, and healing / R. H. Douglas -- Holding on and remembering / Belvie Rooks. The cancer journals / Audre Lorde -- The years in between / Elaine Shelly -- A small place / Jamaica Kincaid -- And still rise / Rise Collins -- The Boston murders / Barbara Smith -- Quo Vadis Gex-Breaux / Milwaukee uncle -- Starting over / Miriam Decosta-Willis -- On turning fifty / Judy Scales-Trent -- Going through my changes / Lois Florence Lyles -- Jive talk and random thoughts / Pearl Cleage -- Looking / Quo Vadis Gex-Breaux -- On "going home" / Deborah E. McDowell -- Natural monuments / Melina Brown -- Ubud, Bali / Alice Walker -- Standing alone with myself / Faith Adiele. Difference and blurred vision / Tijuana Murray -- Bullet holes of resistance / Sonia Sanchez.
