"Her various communities clearly thought of her this way - for example, she was among the group of Black poets, artists, critics, and scholars who gathered at the University of Dayton during the weekend of Oct. 20, 1972, to celebrate the centennial of the birth of Paul Laurence Dunbar, reading alongside Alvin Aubert, Nikki Giovanni, Michael S. Harper, Etheridge Knight, Sonia Sanchez, Raymond Patterson, Lorenzo Thomas, John Oliver Killen, Paule Marshall, J. Saunders Redding and the then very young Alice Walker.Her view, expressed in the unpublished essay "Negritude, So What!"