[Pt.] I: Life/work. Savoring the salt : an introduction / Linda Janet Holmes and Cheryl A. Wall ; Poised for the light / Linda Janet Holmes ; Toni's obligato : Bambara and the African American literary tradition / Cheryl A. Wall -- [Pt.] II: Writing from laughter, writing from rage. "A sort of preface" / Toni Cade Bambara ; Straight-up fiction : sitting down with Toni Cade Bambara's 'Gorilla, my love' / Salamishah Tillet ; Searching for the mother tongue : an interview with Toni Cade Bambara / Kalamu ya Salaam ; The language of soul in Toni Cade Bambara's re/conceived academy / Eleanor W. Traylor ; Translating the salt / Anne Wicke ; "She was just outrageously brilliant" : Toni Morrison remembers Toni Cade Bambara / Valerie Boyd ; The making of paper (for Toni Cade Bambara) / Nikky Finney -- [Pt.] III: "Making revolution irresistible". From The Vietnam notebooks / Toni Cade Bambara ; Toni / Amiri Baraka ; Cuba / Jayne Cortez ; Toni Cade Bambara, black feminist foremother / Beverly Guy-Sheftall ; At the edges of the world / Paula J. Giddings ; How do you measure a revolution? : lessons learned from Toni Cade / Farah Jasmine Griffin ; Drive this thing / Kristin Hunter Lattany -- [Pt.] IV: Teaching usable truths. From "The children who get cheated" / Toni Cade Bambara ; Dear Toni / Audre Lorde ; We drove together : remembering Toni Cade Bambara / Nikki Giovanni ; Lessons in boldness, 101 / Linda Janet Holmes ; A timeless truthteller / Jan Carew ; T.C.B.--taking care of business / Pepsi Charles ; The feeling of transport / Rudolph Byrd ; Teaching Toni Cade Bambara teaching : learning with the children in Toni Cade Bambara's "The lesson" / Abena P.A. Busia ; Toni Cade Bambara / Ruby Dee -- [Pt.] V: Guerrilla filmmaking. "Why black cinema? (1987)" / Toni Cade Bambara ; Asserting my in(ter)dependence : the evolution of NO! / Aishah Shahidah Simmons ; Things that Toni taught me / Frances Negrón-Muntaner -- [Pt.] VI: "Have to be whole to see whole". From Deep sightings and rescue missions / Toni Cade Bambara ; Toni Cade Bambara : a political life of the spirit / Bettina Aptheker ; Toni Cade Bambara to the bone : cultural worker in the black world and the South / Malaika Adero ; Terror at home : naturalized victimization in Those bones are not my child / Rebecca Wanzo ; "something more powerful than skepticism" / Avery F. Gordon ; Remembering and honoring Toni Cade Bambara / Sonia Sanchez.