Jack Hirschman – Paul Robeson

“singing, when I open my mouth, singing when you open yours, singing the dream he rendered palpable, and vast, and deep”

Pat Parker – For the White Person Who Wants to Know How to Be My Friend

“The first thing you do is to forget that I’m black.
Second, you must never forget that I’m black.”

Emily Dickinson – I measure every Grief I meet

“I wonder if It weighs like Mine – Or has an Easier size.”

Jabari Asim – Some Call it God

“Funk lives in us, begetting light as bright as music unfolding into dear lovely day”

Robert Frost – To Earthward

“Love at the lips was touch as sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air”

Krysten Hill – Nothing

“and his laughter unlocks a door. He invites me 
into his living”