Like One of the Family

Table Of Contents

Foreword by Roxane Gay

Introduction by Trudier Harris

Selected Bibliography by Trudier Harris

Like One of the Family

Listen for the Music

On Sayin’ No

Ridin’ the Bus

Buyin’ Presents

If You Want to Get Along with Me

Got to Go Someplace

The Pocketbook Game

New York’s My Home

All About My Job

Bubba

The Health Card

Your Soul…Another You

Signs of the Times

Aren’t You Happy?

Nasty Compliments

Old as the Hills

Mrs. James

Hands

All the Things We Are

I Liked Workin’ at that Place

Good Reason for a Good Time

I Go to a Funeral

Weekend with Pearl

More Blessed To Give

Sometimes I Feel So Sorry

I Go to Church

I Hate Half-Days Off

What Does Africa Want? Freedom!

I Wish I Was a Poet

Economy Corner

In the Laundry Room

I Could Run a School Too

I Visit Yesterday

Story Tellin’ Time

About Those Colored Movies

Why Should I Get Upset?

Inhibitions

What Is It All About?

We Need a Union Too

Pretty Sights and Good Feelin’s

Dope and Things Like That

Merry Christmas, Marge!

On Leavin’ Notes

The “Many Others” in History

Interestin’ and Amusin’

A New Kind of Prayer

History in the Makin’

Dance with Me, Henry

Ain’t You Mad?

Discontent

Northerners Can Be So Smug

Let’s Face It

If Heaven Is What We Want

Where Is the Speakin’ Place?

Missionaries

So Much for Nothing

The Benevolent Club

All About Miss Tubman

ABC’s of Life and Learning

Somehow I’d Like to Thank Them

Men in Your Life