Any Woman's Blues

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These the old bluesand I sing em, sing em, sing em. Just like any woman do.My life ain't done yetNaw... My song ain't through.'Any Woman's Blues, Sherley Anne Williams* Toni Cade Bambara - "Witchbird", "Medley"* Alexis DeVeaux - "The Riddles of Egypt Brownstones", "Remember Him a Outlaw"* Frenchy Hodges - "Requiem for Willie Lee"* Gayl Jones - "Asylum", "Jewata"* Toni Morrison - "Eva Peace"* Ntozake Shange - "aw, babee, you so pretty", "comin to terms"* Alice Walker - "Laurel", "Advancing Luna and Ida B Wells"* Paulette Childress White - "Alice", "The Bird Cage"* Sherley Anne Williams - "Meditations on History"This collection of short stories by nine Black women writers opens and extends the picture of Black women's lives as seen by themselves. The theme of these brilliant stories are universal: the search for self, for freedom, the dreams and realities of love and friendship, the prisons we make of race and sex. Timely, powerful and original, these stories are like the blues - they reach out to the world.