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Honey, Hush! An Anthology of African American Women's Humor

by Daryl Cumber Dance (Editor)

Other authors: Armacie Adams (Contributor), Chris Albertson (Contributor), Bonnie Allen (Contributor), Sibby Anderson-Thompkins (Contributor), Maya Angelou (Contributor) — 103 more, Tina McElroy Ansa (Contributor), Toni Cade Bambara (Contributor), Bertice Berry (Contributor), Fannie Berry (Contributor), Virgie M. Binford (Contributor), Becky Birtha (Contributor), Michele Bowen-Spencer (Contributor), Julia A. Boyd (Contributor), Sarah Bradford (Contributor), Barbara Brandon (Contributor), Linda Brent (Contributor), Louise Brewington (Contributor), Jacqueline Brice-Finch (Contributor), Sonya Brooks (Contributor), Charlotte Brown (Contributor), Annie L. Burton (Contributor), Bebe Moore Campbell (Contributor), Alice Childress (Contributor), Shirley Chisholm (Contributor), Donald Clarke (Contributor), Coco (Contributor), Johnnetta B. Cole (Contributor), Ida Cox (Contributor), Daryl Cumber Dance (Contributor), Hattie Mae Dawson (Contributor), Ruby Dee (Contributor), A. Elizabeth Delany (Contributor), Sarah Delany (Contributor), Toi Derricotte (Contributor), Rita Dove (Contributor), Jeannette Drake (Contributor), Jessie Redmon Fauset (Contributor), Minnie Folkes (Contributor), Mary Weston Fordham (Contributor), Charlotte Forten (Contributor), Julia Frazier (Contributor), Marilyn Fullen-Collins (Contributor), Pauline Gay (Contributor), Nikki Giovanni (Foreword), Nikki Giovanni (Contributor), Whoopi Goldberg (Contributor), Julia Grovernor (Contributor), Lani Guinier (Contributor), Violet Guntharpe (Contributor), Fannie Lou Hamer (Contributor), Lorraine Hansberry (Contributor), Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Contributor), Trudier Harris (Contributor), Hazelle (Contributor), Billie Holiday (Contributor), Karla FC Holloway (Contributor), Zora Neale Hurston (Contributor), Mattie J. Jackson (Contributor), Maggie Pogue Johnson (Contributor), Lisa Jones (Contributor), Flo Kennedy (Contributor), Benilde Little (Contributor), Audre Lorde (Contributor), Moms Mabley (Contributor), Paule Marshall (Contributor), Sara Martin (Contributor), Terry McMillan (Contributor), Louise Meriwether (Contributor), Norma Miller (Contributor), Opal J. Moore (Contributor), Kathryn L. Morgan (Contributor), Thylias Moss (Contributor), Mother Love (Contributor), Gloria Naylor (Contributor), Me'shell Ndegeocello (Contributor), Barbara Neely (Contributor), Jill Nelson (Contributor), Ann Petry (Contributor), Hannah Prosser (Contributor), Carolyn M. Rodgers (Contributor), Kate Rushin (Contributor), Betye Saar (Contributor), Dori Sanders (Contributor), Ntozake Shange (Contributor), Roxanne Shante (Contributor), April Sinclair (Contributor), Amanda Smith (Contributor), Bessie Smith (Contributor), Ethel Morgan Smith (Contributor), Mary Carter Smith (Contributor), Joyce Carol Thomas (Contributor), Priscilla Jane Thompson (Contributor), Sojourner Truth (Contributor), Gloria Wade-Gayles (Contributor), Alice Walker (Contributor), Margaret Walker (Contributor), Michele Wallace (Contributor), Marilyn Nelson Waniek (Contributor), Nagueyalti Warren (Contributor), Ethel Waters (Contributor), Frances Cress Welsing (Contributor), Valerie Wilson Wesley (Contributor), Dorothy West (Contributor), Patricia J. Williams (Contributor), Penny Williams (Contributor), Harriet E. Wilson (Contributor), Sophia Word (Contributor), Alison Workman (Contributor)

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Humor collected from "autobiographies, novel excerpts, essays, poems, speeches, comic routines, proverbial sayings, cartoons, mimeographed sheets, and folk tales."--Jacket.
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Dance, Daryl CumberEditorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Adams, ArmacieContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Albertson, ChrisContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Allen, BonnieContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Anderson-Thompkins, SibbyContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Angelou, MayaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Ansa, Tina McElroyContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Berry, BerticeContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Brent, LindaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Childress, AliceContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Chisholm, ShirleyContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Clarke, DonaldContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
CocoContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Cole, Johnnetta B.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Cox, IdaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Dance, Daryl CumberContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Dawson, Hattie MaeContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Dee, RubyContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Delany, A. ElizabethContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Derricotte, ToiContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Dove, RitaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Drake, JeannetteContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Fauset, Jessie RedmonContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Folkes, MinnieContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Fordham, Mary WestonContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Forten, CharlotteContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Frazier, JuliaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Fullen-Collins, MarilynContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Gay, PaulineContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Giovanni, NikkiForewordsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Giovanni, NikkiContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Goldberg, WhoopiContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Grovernor, JuliaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Guinier, LaniContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Guntharpe, VioletContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Hamer, Fannie LouContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Hansberry, LorraineContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Harris, TrudierContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
HazelleContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Holiday, BillieContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Hurston, Zora NealeContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Jackson, Mattie J.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Johnson, Maggie PogueContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Jones, LisaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Kennedy, FloContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Little, BenildeContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Lorde, AudreContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Mabley, MomsContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Marshall, PauleContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Martin, SaraContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
McMillan, TerryContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Meriwether, LouiseContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Miller, NormaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Moore, Opal J.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Contains:
  • Forward / Nikki Giovanni
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1: “No Big Thing for ’Oman”: The Power and Strength of the Black Woman
    • Masterpiece / Mimeographed Item
    • Ego Tripping / Nikki Giovanni
    • Have a Nice Day / Roxanne Shanté
    • Living Water, IV / Carolyn M. Rodgers
    • Learning to Read / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
    • I Not Going to Stop til I Make It to de Top / Hazelle
    • Kissie Lee / Margarget Walker
    • Old Maid’s Soliloquy / Maggie Pogue Johnson
    • Backwater Blues / Bessie Smith
    • Bad Bessie / Chris Clarke
    • Billie Holiday / Donald Clarke
    • Whipping the Chorus Girls / Ethel Waters
    • Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues / Ida Cox
    • How’d You Make Out? / Folk
    • Queen Bee / Folk
    • Devil’s Gonna Get Him / Valerie Wilson Wesley
    • View de Land / Anonymous
    • Mama / Marilyn Fullen-Collins
    • Getting the Last Word / A. Elizabeth Delany
    • Mama Sez
    • Sister to Sister
  • Chapter 2: “Nice Girls Don’t”: Motherly Advice
    • Ol’ Enough / Fannie Berry
    • The Tired Poem / Folk
    • An Hour of Pleasure / Folk
    • Norfolk / Folk
    • Dildo / Toi Derricotte
    • Prince Charming / April Sinclair
    • ain’t gonna be the same fool twice / April Sinclair
    • In Search of Pharaoh’s Daughter / Patricia J. Williams
    • Got a Job to Do / Julia A. Boyd
    • Envy / Bebe Moore Campbell
    • Nice Girls / Karla F. C. Holloway
    • Yes M’am / Jeannette Drake
    • You Rinate? / Daryl Cumber Dance
    • how i got ovah II / It Is Deep II / Carolyn M. Rodgers
    • Grandma Talk / Sonya Brooks
    • Mama Sez
    • Sister to Sister
  • Chapter 3: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Black Woman’s Physical Image
    • The Liberation of Aunt Jemima / Betye Saar
    • Lessons from a Mirror / Thylias Moss
    • Soul on Ice / Me’Shell Ndegeocello
    • Black Men, White Women / Bebe Moore Campbell
    • A Happening in Barbados / Louise Meriwether
    • Looking Out for the Children / April Sinclair
    • Ball It Up and Throw It to Me / Folk
    • Naturally / Audre Lorde
    • I’m a Big Fat Mama / Traditional Blues
    • Mean Tight Mama / Sarah Martin
    • Just a Cream Color / Folk
    • For Sistuhs Wearin Straight Hair / Carolyn M. Rodgers
    • The Long Way Home / Karla F. C. Holloway
    • Grease / Alison Workman
    • A Reconsideration of the Blackbird / Thylias Moss
    • Here I Come, Ready of Not / April Sinclair
    • We Must, We Must, We Must / Folk
    • Ode to a Mammogram / Mimeographed Item
    • Where I’m Coming From / Barbara Brandon
    • Who Says an Older Woman Can’t / Shouldn’t Dance? / Gloria Wade-Gayles
    • Do You Remember? / Folk
    • Growing Wild / Mimeographed Item
    • Old Age Is Hell / Folk
    • I Can’t Remember / Folk
    • Plenty Fire in the Furnace / Folk
    • You Got an “F” in Sex / Folk
    • Mama Sez
    • Sister to Sister
  • Chapter 4: Bronzeville, U.S.A.: The Black Community
    • Down Home Sunday Blues / Nagueyalti Warren
    • Dealing with Illness and Helpless Relatives / Mother Love
    • Her Own Place / Dori Sanders
    • The Strongest Drive / Mimeographed Item
    • A Dentist’s Jokes / Folk
    • Waiting to Exhale / Terry McMillan
    • Talk Yuh Talk / Paule Marshall
    • Quilting Time / Virgie M. Binford
    • An Afternoon Gossip / Priscilla Jane Thompson
    • The Overweight Angel / Trudier Harris
    • Meal Time / Maggie Pogue Johnson
    • Having Our Say / Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany
    • What’s Mo’ Temptin’ to de Palate? / Maggie Pogue Johnson
    • Johnnieruth / Becky Birtha
    • The Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara
    • The Spelling Bee / Ethel Morgan Smith
    • The Yellow Mule / Zora Neale Hurston
    • Dr. Buzzard / Gloria Naylor
    • To See Ol’ Booker T. / Maggie Pouge Johnson
    • When I Mourns, I Mourns All Over / Ann Petry
    • Ugly Ways / Tina McElroy Ansa
    • Mama Sez
    • Sister to Sister
  • Chapter 5: The Black Church and Churchgoers
    • The Fence / Opal J. Moore
    • Young Reverend Zelma Lee Moses / Joyce Carol Thomas
    • A Fool, a Girlfriend, a Husband and a Wife / Michele Bowen-Spencer
    • The Preacher Tells a Lie / Hattie Mae Dawson
    • The Minister’s Fresh Air / Folk
    • Open That Door / Folk
    • The Reverend Howard Thomas / Maya Angelou
    • He Remembered / Folk
    • Under Suspicion / Folk
    • Jesus must have been some kind of dude / Carolyn M. Rodgers
    • Praising the Lord / A. Elizabeth Delany
    • Helping a Lady Out / Folk
    • Shall We Gather at the River / Folk
    • Gone to Meddlin’ / Folk
    • Prayer I / Folk
    • Prayer II / Folk
    • I’m Thinking It Over / Billie Holiday
    • Mama Sez
    • Sister to Sister
  • Chapter 6: My Sweet Papa: Courtship and Good Loving
    • Sample of a “Courtship” Conversation / Anonymous
    • A Difficult Courtship / Anonymous
    • Going Courting / Penny Williams
    • The Happiest Minute / Violet Guntharpe
    • Jonah’s Gourd Vine / Zora Neale Hurston
    • Story in Harlem Slang / Zora Neale Hurston
    • Cindy Ellie, a Modern Fairy Tale / Mary Carter Smith
    • Through the Ivory Gate / Rita Dove
    • Mary Elizabeth / Jessie Redmon Fauset
    • The Coming Woman / Mary Weston Fordham
    • To Pig or Not to Pig / Ruby Dee
    • Conflict / Jeannette Drake
    • I Wanna Hot Dog for My Roll / Butterbeans and Susie
    • We Ain’t Dead Yet / Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany
    • The Mechanic / Mimeographed Item
    • May I Have This Dance / Folk
    • The Next Time You Come … / Folk
    • Mama Sez
    • Sister to Sister
  • Chapter 7: “My Daddy Won’t Stop His Evil Ways”: Problems with Husbands and Lovers
    • Where I’m Coming From / Barbara Brandon
    • A Herb Most Bruised Is Woman / Paule Marshall
    • The Color Purple / Alice Walker
    • I Can’t Remember / Folk
    • The Good Ole Days / Moms Mabley
    • Over the Hill / Folk
    • The Fifteen-Inch Pianist / Folk
    • Up / Folk
    • Shortening / Folk
    • The Laziest Man / Louise Brewington
    • The Language of Black Men / Frances Cress Welsing
    • Brother Johnson’s Search for a Colored Wife / Amanda Smith
    • On Marriage / Flo Kennedy
    • A Man Won’t Make a Fool of Me Twice / Folk
    • Where I’m Coming From / Barbara Brandon
    • The Ladies / Norma Miller
    • It Ain’t About Nothin’ / Terry McMillan
    • Love Awaits / Coco
    • I Figured He Could Fly / Folk
    • Sexual Awareness / Folk
    • Cucumbers Are Better than Men Because … / Mimeographed Item
    • Chain Letter / Mimeographed Item
    • Dear Ann Landers / Mimeographed Item
    • How to Tell if Your Marriage Is in Trouble / Mother Love
    • Where I’m Coming From / Barbara Brandon
    • The Johnson Girls / Toni Cade Bambara
    • Corporate Boys / Lisa Jones
    • Where I’m Coming From / Barbara Brandon
    • If You Won’t Talk About What I’m Wearing / Flo Kennedy
    • lady in red / Ntozake Shange
    • Well, … / Folk
    • She Didn’t Ask about You / Folk
    • I Ain’t Dead / Folk
    • Woman Whacks Off Sleeping Husband’s Penis, Then Throws It from Moving Car / Mimeographed Item
    • Their Eyes Were Watching God / Zora Neale Hurston
    • Mama Sez
    • Sister to Sister
  • Chapter 8: “Just Like a White Man”: Dicties
    • Your attitude is politically correct if / Bonnie Allen
    • Mama Day / Gloria Naylor
    • Blanche Among the Talented Tenth / Barbara Neely
    • The Wedding / Dorothy West
    • The Queen of Sheba Done Got Married / Benilde Little
    • Linden Hills / Gloria Naylor
    • Coffee Will Make You Black / April Sinclair
    • The Living Is Easy / Dorothy West
    • Where Are You From? / Folk
    • The Proper Word / Folk
    • Fido / Folk
    • College Graduates / Mimeographed Item
    • The Lee Sisters / Folk
    • Does It Come in White? / Folk
    • Mama Sez
    • Sister to Sister
  • Chapter 9: My People, My People!: Self-Denigrating Tales
    • I Raised Hell While I Was There / Folk
    • Superstitious / Maggie Pogue Johnson
    • I Been Sick / Folk
    • We Ain’t Dumb / Folk
    • It Hasn’t Been Used / Folk
    • Jesus Wept / Folk
    • Tongue and Teeth / Folk
    • Why I Talk Like Dis? / Folk
    • Am I Jewish or Am I Black? / Folk
    • You Is What You Is / Folk
    • Testimonials / Folk
    • Mom’s First Plane Ride / Moms Mabley
    • I’ll Take Him / Folk
    • You Know / Folk
    • Ho-de-do / Folk
    • O.J.’s Going to Cancun / Folk
    • Country Guy and City Guy / Folk
    • English ’Umor / Jacqueline Brice-Finch
    • Pa’nella / Val Ward
    • The New Rectum / Folk
    • Stayman / Folk
    • Hurry Up / Folk
    • Playing in a Big Auditorium / Folk
    • spell #7: Geechee jibara quik magic trance manual for technologically stressed third world people / Ntozake Shange
    • Blacks Application for Employment / Mimeographed Item
    • Ebonics / Mimeographed Item
    • Mama Sez
    • Sister to Sister
  • Chapter 10: Fight, Kick, Bite: Dealing with a Racist and Sexist America
    • The Jealous Mistress / Linda Brent
    • Months of Peril / Linda Brent
    • Butter ’n’ Bread / Nagueyalti Warren
    • Us Colored Women Had to Go Through a Plenty / Fannie Berry
    • Sukie / Fannie Berry
    • Serves ’Em Right / Minnie Folkes
    • No Overseer Ever Downed Her / Former Slave
    • The Meanest Nigger / Sophia Word
    • It’s a Good Time to Dress You Out / Former Slave
    • Childhood / Former Slave
    • Charlie / Julia Frazier
    • Fire Sticks / Fannie Berry
    • Aunt Hannah Introduces Herself / Hannah Prosser
    • Old Satan Is Mad / Slave Song
    • Marching Up the Heavenly Road / Slave Song
    • Harriet, the Moses of Her People / Sarah Bradford
    • While the Water Is Stirring I Will Step into the Pool / Sojourner Truth
    • Our Nig / Harriet E. Wilson
    • The Soldiers, and Our Treatment During the War / Mattie J. Jackson
    • Journal, October 28, 1862 / Charlotte Forten
    • Memories of Childhood’s Slavery Days / Annie L. Burton
    • You’s Free / Armacie Adams
    • Stomp Down Freedom / Charlotte Brown
    • We’s Free / Fannie Berry
    • Done wid Driver’s Dribin’ / Freedom Song
    • A Common Occurrence / Priscilla Jane Thompson
    • I Ain’t Know Nuttn’ / Julia Grovernor
    • The Tar Baby / Folk
    • You Gon’ Make Bread Today / Folk
    • Too Many Ups / Pauline Gay
    • I Would Rather Die Than Back Down, Honey / Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany
    • Like One of the Family / Alice Childress
    • The Pocketbook Game / Alice Childress
    • Mrs. James / Alice Childress
    • Never Trust a White Person / April Sinclair
    • I’ll Go as Far as Memphis / Folk
    • Gaining Respect / Folk
    • ’Sippi / Folk
    • Listen, Mame / Moms Mabley
    • Maggie’s Stories / Kathryn L. Morgan
    • Mary Had a Little Lamb / Ruby Dee
    • Some People Just Can’t Tell Jokes / Folk
    • At Least I Know Where I Am / Folk
    • Mama Sez
    • Sister to Sister
  • Chapter 11: “From the Back of the Bus to the Back of the National Priority List”: The Civil Rights Movement, Integration, and Beyond
    • We Are Overcome / Bonnie Allen
    • A Raisin in the Sun / Lorraine Hansberry
    • Sick and Tire of Being Tick and Tired / Fannie Lou Hamer
    • Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman / Michelle Wallace
    • Jack and Jill / Ruby Dee
    • Yeah, I Is Uh Shootin Off at the Mouth, I Is Uh Fairy Tale or Yeah, I Is Uh Revolutionist! / Carolyn M. Rodgers
    • and when the revolution came / Carolyn M. Rodgers
    • The Revolution is Resting / Carolyn M. Rodgers
    • Git That Gal a Red Dress / Opal J. Moore
    • Come and Be Black for Me / Ethel Morgan Smith
    • The Bones of Louella Brown / Ann Petry
    • Female Gentleman / Lani Guinier
    • I Didn’t Come Here to Play / Shirley Chisholm
    • Getting to Know Me / Bertice Berry
    • Changing the Tapes / Bertice Berry
    • Campus Racism 101 / Nikki Giovanni
    • Where I’m Coming From / Barbara Brandon
    • America / Bonnie Allen
    • The Interview / Benilde Little
    • We Will Live the Life of the Cosbys / Jill Nelson
    • Affirmation Action in Heaven / Mimeographed Item
    • I Know a Rascal When I See One / Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany
    • Where I’m Coming From / Barbara Brandon
    • Sister to Sister
  • Chapter 12: Tidbits from the Laughing Barrel
    • Sister President / Johnnetta B. Cole
    • A Sort of Preface / Toni Cade Bambara
    • A Happy Story / Opal J. Moore
    • Lorraine Hansberry / Nikki Giovanni
    • Nexus / Rita Dove
    • To Whom It Concerns / Flo Kennedy
    • The Map of Dixie on My Tongue / Zora Neale Hurston
    • How You Doing / Folk
    • Emily Dickenson’s Defunct / Marilyn Nelson Waniek
    • Epitaph for Willie / Sibby Anderson-Thompkins
    • Fontaine / Whoopi Goldberg
    • Bill Clinton’s Advisers and Cabinet / Mimeographed Item
    • How You Can Tell When It’s Going to be a Rotten Day / Mimeographed Item
    • O.J. Is Chilly / Folk
    • Approach the Bench / Folk
    • Where I’m Coming From / Barbara Brandon
    • Wait on de Lord / Folk
    • Is the Coast Clear? / Folk
    • Retirement Policy / Mimeographed Item
    • Teachers on the Third Floor / Folk
    • Senior Citizen Beat Inflation / Mimeographed Item
    • Safe Sex / Jacqueline Brick-Finch
    • Women’s Movement / Flo Kennedy
    • West Virginia Medical Terminology for the Layman / Mimeographed Item
    • My Sympathy / Folk
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817.008Literature › American literature in English › American humor and satire in English

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