Whose little boy are you?

— James Baldwin

Naturally, this country can't stand truth.

— Lewis H. Michaux

That was 1993 grunge in suburbia. This was 2003 hell in Harlem. (Dark City Lights).

— Eve Kagan

Black 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. Michaux

Good 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