chapter 4 The Girl Can Write

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Introduction 1
4. chapter 1 These Is New York Children 8
5. chapter 2 A Sort of Extraordinary Kind of Person 34
6. chapter 3 An Insane Notion 51
7. chapter 4 The Girl Can Write 64
8. chapter 5 Things Is Different to Before 81
9. chapter 6 Black Is to Seek a New Way 103
10. chapter 7 In-Betweenness 130
11. chapter 8 A Journey Backward to Find Her Own Tribe 153
12. chapter 9 I’m Taking More Risks 177
13. chapter 10 The New Generation 206
14. chapter 11 Portrait of the Artist 224
15. chapter 12 In the Presence of the Ancestors 248
16. notes 255
17. acknowledgments 283
18. Index 287