Tough boyz and trouble : those girls waiting outside D.C. Jail remind me of myself / Patrice Gaines -- "Marilyn" from The habit of surviving / Kesho Yvonne Scott -- Uses of the erotic : the erotic as power / Audre Lorde -- Letting go with love / Miriam Decosta-Willis -- A new shower massage, phone sex, and separation / Tina McElroy Ansa -- Walking in my mother's footsteps to love / Marita Golden -- Sleeping with the enemy / Audrey Edwards -- Black men, white women : a sister relinquishes her anger / Bebe Moore Campbell -- Mars conjunct Neptune / Judy Dothard Simmons -- The act behind the word / Dorisjean Austin -- Delusions of safety : a personal story / Marcia Ann Gillespie -- Wounded in the house of a friend / Sonia Sanchez -- In the wink of an eye : black lesbians and gay men together / Jewelle Gomez -- However you come to me / Ntozake Shange -- Black men do feel about love / Audrey B. Chapman.