List of Works

Invisible Man

Shadow and Act

The City In Crisis

Going To the Territory

Flying Home and Other Stories

Juneteenth

(not a complete list)

"One ironic witness to the beauty and the universality of this art [Negro folklore] is the fact that the descendents of the very men who enslaved us [blacks] can now sing the spirituals and find in the singing an exaltation of their own humanity."

"What, if anything, is there that a novelist can say about his work that wouldn't be better left to the critics?  They at least have the advantage of dealing with the words on the page, while for him the task of accounting for the process involved in putting them there is similar to that of commanding a smoky genie to make an orderly retreat..."