By: Claude McKay

“Darkly I gaze into the days ahead…”

By: W.E.B. Du Bois

“It is the Curve of Steel…”

By: Noëlle Roger

“There are so many strange things happening here…”

By: Conrad Aiken

“I ascend from darkness / And depart on the winds of space for I know not where…”

By: Robert Gilbert Wells

“I reckon you think that you are white don’t you?”

By: Noëlle Roger

The village was progressively disappearing, one house after another.

By: Blaise Cendrars

“Shit is said in all corners of the universe…”

By: W.E.B. Du Bois

“Well, uncle, where is professor?”

By: Langston Hughes

“Tomorrow, / I’ll be at the table…”

By: Algernon Blackwood

His intelligence then strangely opened…

By: Robert Gilbert Wells

“I became acquainted with a mineral or fluid…”

By: Hirato Renkichi

“An animal of irritated electricity…”

By: George Schuyler

He was white now.

By: Fenton Johnson

“I am tired of building up somebody else’s civilization.”

By: Algernon Blackwood

A wild bewilderment came on him.