every day i find a new life my love for freedom, our right to wear robes as we please, never sets. black voices dance in my soul like...

He has been Many places In ships That cross the sea, He has studied varied faces, Has tasted mystery, In Oriental cities He breasted...

I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within....

1 Oh, my God is in the whirlwind, I am walking in the valley; Lift me up, O Shinning Father, To the glory of the heavens, I have seen a...

He was arrested and detained for nailing Barbie doll heads to telephone poles. He was beaten while in custody, accussed. After healing,...

Each tear that fell from the crushed moon of your face, stabbed me, broke and split into a thousand pains. But I held out my arms, and...

God be in my head And in my understanding; God be in mine eyes And in my looking; God be in my mouth And in my speaking; God be in my...

I am blind. I cannot see. Color has no bar to me. I know niether Black or white. I walk in night. Yet it seems I see mankind More...

If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this. Kitaro Nishida...

I stand most humbly Before man’s wisdom, Knowing we are not Really wise: If we were We’d open up the kingdom And make earth happy As the...

Once I adopted A little girl child, She grew up and got ruint, Nearly drove me wild. Then I adopted A little boy. He used a switch-blade...

Always first to rise he usually sliped into daybreak like a phantom – heading (in jacket jeans white socks & loafers) for Alemeda the...

I cannot sleep.  The long, long Night is full of bitterness. I sit alone in my room, Beside a smoky lamp. I rub my heavy eyelids And idly...

Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon I heard a Negro play Down on Lenox Avenue the other night ...

In places like Selma, Alabama, Kids say, In places like Chicago and New York…… In places like Chicago and New York Kids say, In places...

The path I walk was made for me with grains of faith for sand……. Because of those who paved the way – I am free to walk this land. The...

That which inside of me screaming beating about for exit or entry names the wind, wanting winds’ voice wanting winds’ power it is not...

“Mingus One, Two and Three” “Which is the image you want the world to see?’ – Charles Mingus, Beneath the UnderdogHeartstring, Blessed...

I. Would That I were a jewel, A shattered jewel, That all my shining brilliants Might fall at thy feet, Thou dark one. II. Would That I...

Listen! All you beauty-makers, Give up beauty for a moment. Look at harshness, look at pain, Look at life again. Look at hungry...