Things / Eloise Greenfield --
Hip hop rules the world / Jacqueline Woodson --
I think I'll call it morning / Gil Scott-Heron --
Aloneness / Gwendolyn Brooks --
The girls in the circle / Nikki Giovanni --
From "Ham n eggs" / A tribe called Quest --
Music for fun and profit / Gary Soto --
Audition / Hope Anita Smith --
from "Hey Mama" / Kanye West --
Dream Boogie / Langston Hughes --
Funky snowman / Calef Brown --
Oh words / Eloise Greenfield --
from "Rapper's delight" / Sugarhill Gang --
from "Ladies first" / Queen Latifah --
People equal / James Berry --
from "It's love" / Jill Scott --
from "Umi Says" / Mos Def --
Taking action / James Berry --
Dream variations / Langston Hughes --
Allow me to introduce myself / Charles R. Smith, Jr. --
Dat dere / Oscar Brown Jr. --
Books / Eloise Greenfield --
For word / Benjamin Zephaniah --
Waitin' on summer / Ruth Forman --
Jimmy Wall, 14, boy evangelist / Walter Dean Myers --
from "Principal's office" / Young MC --
Love poem for my people / Pedro Pietri --
why some people be mad at me sometimes / Lucille Clifton --
from "Love is..." / Common --
Harlem night song / Langston Hughes --
Harlem hopscotch / Maya Angelou --
from "The Creation" / James Weldon Johnson --
Ego tripping / Nikki Giovanni --
from "No regrets" / Aesop Rock --
First signature / Angela Shannon --
No images / William Waring Cuney --
Everything is everything / Lauryn Hill --
The Rose that grew from concrete / Tupac Shakur --
Long track blues / Sterling A. Brown --
from "Talkin' all that jazz" / Stetsasonic --
We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks --
If we must die / Claude McKay --
We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar --
Who will cry? / Antwone Fisher --
The song of the smoke / W.E.B. DuBois --
Doubtless by Steve Ericson / Nikki Giovanni --
The negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes --
If we forget / Ja Jahannes --
from "I have a dream" / Martin Luther King Jr.
