You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down_ Stories - Alice Walker
You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down
Alice Walker
This book is dedicated to my contemporaries
I thank my sister Ruth for the stories she tells.
I thank Bessie Head, Ama Ata Aidoo, Buchi Emecheta, Wa Thiong’o Ngugi, Okot p’Bitek and Ousmane Sembene for the stories they write.
I thank Gloria Steinem, Joanne Edgar and Suzanne Braun Levine of Ms. magazine, who greeted each of the many stories Ms. published from this collection with sisterly welcome and enthusiasm.
I thank Ma Rainey, Bessie ...