Black ink : literary legends on the peril, power, and pleasure of reading and writing / edited by Stephanie Stokes Oliver ; foreword by Nikki Giovanni.
Suspected of having a book / Frederick Douglass -- Nine years deprived of a sheet of paper / Solomon Northup -- A whole race begins to read / Booker T. Washington -- The Negro in literature and art / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Books and things / Zora Neale Hurston -- Poetry is practical / Langston Hughes -- The business of the writer -- James Baldwin -- Turning point / Malcolm X -- Lessons in living / Maya Angelou -- -- Morehouse College / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The site of memory / Toni Morrison -- Where are the people of color in children's books? / Walter Dean Myers -- Reading for revolution / Stokely Carmichael [Kwame Ture] -- Twenty-one / Alice Walker -- A temporary library in a small place / Jamaica Kincaid -- What is an African American Classic? / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- The new black scribe / Terry McMillan -- Patter and patois / Walter Mosley -- MFA vs. POC / Junot Diaz -- Create dangerously / Edwidge Danticat -- From Jamaica to Minnesota to myself / Marlon James -- I Once Was Miss America / Roxane Gay -- The Mecca / Ta-Nehisi Coates -- The Danger of the Single Story / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- Poem : I Need to Write... / J. Ivy [James Ivy Richardson II].
Summary:
"Spanning 250 years, this carefully-curated collection of 25 essays features the earliest Black authors who wrote as means of resistance in a time when their literacy was illegal and the brilliant writers who have continued their legacy--utilizing the power of the written word to create change, insert a diversity of experience into the "mainstream," and make a profound impact on our communities and the world"-- Provided by publishers.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.