Lift every voice and sing.
You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There’s a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that’s just begun.
The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.
Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.