By: Leslie Pinckney Hill

“Faint not, O brothers, if the forward way / Must lie through fire and famine, death and blood.”

By: Zora Neale Hurston

“None may lag / When star dust hides the earth.”

By: William Stanley Braithwaite

“A breath of the infinite poise, where space and time are spun…”

By: Georgia Douglas Johnson

“The world has its motion, all things pass away…”

By: Walter Everette Hawkins

“I break the limbs of idols / And smash the traditions of men.”

By: Carrie W. Clifford

“Opportunities like bursting bombs / Shall blast the walls that limit us Today.”

By: Maurice N. Corbett

“Let blacks who have a settled will / To emigrate, go to Brazil…”

By: Marita Bonner

“You take blood — you give blood.”

By: Marita Bonner

“Give me a handful of dust!”

By: Marita Bonner

“Yes I can lay my head on the rocks of Nowhere.”

By: Marita Bonner

“The Us will never learn to be sensible!”

By: Marita Bonner

“You stay where you are! / We don’t want you up here!”

By: Edward Silvera

“We must build stronger altars / To the God of skyscrapers.”

By: Angela Morgan

“From the course where Aldebaran runs / I will summon the suns.”

By: Angela Weld Grimké

“The black hand plucks and plucks / At the bricks.”