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Black Nature
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The Black Woman: An Anthology
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You Don’t Know Us Negroes
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Selected Poems
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Things Fall Apart
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But Some of Us Are Brave
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Collected Poems
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Dark Matter
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FIRE!! Devoted to Younger Negro Artists
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Jimmy's Blues
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Honey, I Love
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Gorilla, My Love
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The Price of the Ticket
Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985
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The New Negro Aesthetic
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James Baldwin. Steve Schapiro. The Fire Next Time
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