2ND ED. 2024
John H. Bracey, Sonia Sanchez, James Smethurst
Farming While Black
Chelsea Green
My Soul Has Grown Deep: Black Art from the American South
Cheryl Finley, Randall R. Griffey, Amelia Peck and Darryl Pinckney
Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Second Edition
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., William L. Andrews, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Frances Smith, Nellie Y. McKay
Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community
Deitrich Bonhoeffer
Blues People: Negro Music in White America
Amiri Baka (published as LeRoi Jones)
The Imitation of Christ
Thomas à Kempis
Jazz Anecdotes
Bill Crow
The New American Poetry 1945-1960
edited by Donald Allen
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
“The Creative Process”
James Baldwin
They’ve been key points of inspiration in my creative, spiritual, cultural, and philosophical formation.