Essays
"To Be a Black Woman." New York Times Magazine 28 March 1971: 8.
"What the Black Woman Thinks About Women's Lib." New York Times Magazine 22 Aug. 1971: 14-15, 63-66.
"Behind the Making of The Black Book." Black World Feb. 1974: 86-90.
"Rediscovering Black History." New York Times Magazine 11 Aug. 1974: 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24.
"Reading." Mademoiselle May 1975: 14.
"A Slow Walk of Trees (as Grandmother Would Say) Hopeless (as Grandfather Would Say)." New York Times Magazine 4 July 1976: 104-105, 150-164.
"I Will Always Be a Writer." Essence Dec. 1976: 54-56, 90.
Foreword. The Harlem Book of the Dead. By James Van Der Zee, Owen Dodson, and Camille Billops. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan and Morgan, 1978. n.p.
"The Lesson of Cinderella's Stepsisters." Ms. Sept. 1979: 41-42.
"City Limits, Village Values: Concepts of the Neighborhood in Black Fiction." Literature and the Urban Experience. Ed. Michael C. Jaye and Ann Chalmers Watts. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1981. 35-43.
"Writers Together" (Address Given at the American Writers' Congress, 9 Oct. 1981). Nation 24 Oct. 1981: 396 ff.
"Memory, Creation, and Writing." Thought Dec. 1984: 385-390.
"Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation." Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation. Ed. Mari Evans. Garden City, NY: Anchor-Doubleday, 1984. 339-345.
"A Knowing So Deep." Essence May 1985: 230.
"Faulkner and Women." Faulkner and Women: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha. Ed. Doreen Fowler and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: U of Mississippi P, 1986. 295-302.
"The Site of Memory." Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir. Ed. William Zinnser. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. 103-124.
"On Behalf of Henry Dumas." Black American Literature Forum 22 (1988): 310-312. [End Page 796]
"Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The African American Presence in American Literature." Michigan Quarterly Review 28 (1989): 1-34.
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1992.
"Introduction: Friday on the Potomac." Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality. Ed. Toni Morrison. New York: Pantheon, 1992. vii-xxx.
"Nobel Lecture 1993." World Literature Today 68 (1994): 5-8.