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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Back Again, Home | |
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| "Stereo" | |
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| Wake-Up Niggers | |
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| Re-Act For Action | |
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| First Impressions On A Poet's Death | |
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| Taxes | |
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| Mainstream of Society | |
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| "They Are Not Ready" | |
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| Awareness | |
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| The New Integrationist | |
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| Statistics | |
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| Two Poems | |
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| Only A Few Left | |
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| The Only One | |
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| The Primitive | |
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| Contradiction in Essence | |
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| The Death Dance | |
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| The Traitor | |
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| Black Poetics/for the many to come | |
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| Gwendolyn Brooks | |
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| But He Was Cool or: he even stopped for green lights | |
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| Communication in Whi-te | |
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| Don't Cry, Scream | |
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| A Poem to Complement other Poems | |
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| Hero | |
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| Black Sketches | |
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| blackwoman | |
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| The Third World Bond | |
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| The Revolutionary Screw | |
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| Reflections on a Lost Love | |
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| A Poem Looking for a Reader | |
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| Louder but Softer | |
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| Blackman/an unfinished history | |
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| Soft, Hard, Warm, Sure | |
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| Judy-One | |
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| Man Thinking About Woman | |
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| Marlayna | |
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| Big Momma | |
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| Mixed Sketches | |
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| Man and Woman | |
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| Blackgirl Learning | |
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| On Seeing Diana Go Maddddddddd | |
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| First | |
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| We're an Africanpeople | |
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| A Poem for A Poet | |
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| Change is Not Always Progress | |
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| Knocking Donkey Fleas off a Poet from the Southside of Chi | |
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| Change | |
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| Sun House | |
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| One Sided Shoot-out | |
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| For Black People | |
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| See Sammy Run in the Wrong Direction | |
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| We Walk the Way of the New World | |
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| Move Unnoticed to be Noticed: A Nationhood Poem | |
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| Change-up | |
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| Positives: for Sterling Plumpp | |
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| With All Deliberate Speed | |
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| To Be Quicker for Black Political Prisoners on the Inside and Outside - Real | |
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| An Afterword: for Gwen Brooks | |
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| Mwilu/or Poem for the Living | |
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| Discovering the Traitors | |
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| Worldview | |
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| Positive Movement Will Be Difficult but Necessary | |
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| We Are Some Funny "Black Artists" and Everybody Laughs at Us | |
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| Rise Vision Comin | |
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| Hooked | |
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| African Men | |
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| Spirit Flight into the Coming | |
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| Life Poems | |
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| You Will Not Recognize Your Brothers | |
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| Poetry | |
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| The Petty Shell Game | |
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| Message | |
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| Expectations | |
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| The Writer | |
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| Everything's Cool: Black America in the Early Eighties | |
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| The Secrets of the Victors | |
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| Is Truth Liberating? | |
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| The Shape Of Things To Come | |
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| Negro Leaderships | |
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| Women Black: Why These Poems | |
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| Maturity | |
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| Abortion | |
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| Safisha | |
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| Winterman | |
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| Lovepoems | |
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| The Changing Seasons of Ife | |
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| Lady Day | |
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| Some of the Women are Brave | |
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| Search Void of Fear | |
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| Womenblack: We begin with You | |
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| Struggle | |
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| A Mother's Poem | |
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| Rainforest | |
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| In The Gut or Give Me Five | |
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| The Destruction of Fathers | |
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| Poet: for Larry Neal | |
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| My Brothers | |
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| The Damage We Do | |
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| Rape: the male crime | |
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| White on Black Crime | |
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| A Poem for Quincy Jones, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Earl Jones, Wilt Chamberlain, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Lou Rawls, andc., andc., andc., for Days | |
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| Comin Strong | |
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| Message to Our Sons | |
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| For Blackmen with Integrity and Convictions | |
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| Get Fired Up | |
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| Hanging Hard in America | |
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| America: the future | |
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| Biko | |
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| Sun and Storm | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Future | |
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| Earthquakes | |
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| Sun Rise Missions | |
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| Destiny | |
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| Getting to this Place | |
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| Killing Memory | |
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| The Union of Two | |
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| Possibilities: Remembering Malcolm X | |
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| Aberrations | |
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| The End of White World Supremacy | |
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| Searching | |
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| Poet: Gwendolyn Brooks at 70 | |
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| Magnificent Tomorrows | |
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| Always Remember Where You Are | |
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| Poem Resulting from a Television Ad For The Color Purple | |
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| Woman with Meaning | |
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| Hoyt W. Fuller: No Easy Compromises | |
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| First World | |
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| Remarkable Music and Measure: Remembering the Fathers and the Sons | |
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| Honest Search | |
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| Moves | |
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| Pollution: Part 1 | |
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| Poet: What Ever Happened to Luther? | |
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| The Great Wait | |
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| negro: an updated definition part 368 | |
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| Seeking Ancestors | |
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| The B Network | |
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| Black Manhood: Toward A Definition | |
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| A Bonding | |
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| Mothers | |
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| Yes | |
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| Culture | |
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| Haiti | |
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| White People are People too | |
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| Rwanda: Where Tears have no Power | |
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| Gwendolyn Brooks: Distinctive and Proud at 77 | |
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| Standing as an African Man: Black Men in a Sea of Whiteness | |
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| The Mission of a Good Man | |
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| The State's Answer to Economic Development | |
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| So Many Books, So Little Time | |
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| Too Many of Our Young are Dying | |
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| What Makes Him Happy | |