By: Hart Crane

“Down Wall, from girder into street noon leaks, / A rip-tooth of the sky’s acetylene…”

By: Noëlle Roger

“All madmen attest to their lucidity of mind!”

By: W.E.B. Du Bois

“Once upon a time there lived an Over-man…”

By: Countee Cullen

“She will be young / When your last cracked and quivering note is sung.”

By: Noëlle Roger

“This torment of not knowing, isn’t it an atrocity?”

By: Robert Gilbert Wells

“The palaces of three decades or thirty years in the future…”

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…”