Whose little boy are you?
— James BaldwinNaturally, this country can't stand truth.
— Lewis H. MichauxThat was 1993 grunge in suburbia. This was 2003 hell in Harlem. (Dark City Lights).
— Eve KaganBlack is beautiful .Black isn’t power. Knowledge is power. You can be black as a crow or white as snow but if you don’t know and you ain’t got no dough, you can’t go and that’s for sho’.
— Lewis H. MichauxGood morning, daddy!Ain't you heardThe boogie-woogie rumbleOf a dream deferred?Listen closely:You'll hear their feetBeating out and beating out a -You thinkIt's a happy beat?Listen to it closely:Ain't you heardsomething underneathlike a -What did I say?Sure,I'm happy!Take it away!Dream BoogieHey, pop!Re-bop!Mop!Y-e-a-h!
— Langston Hughes