Emergency measures / Nikki Grimes --
Storm ending / Jean Toomer --
Life and death / Clara Ann Thompson --
Crucible of champions / Nikki Grimes --
For a poet / Countee Cullen --
A Safe place / Nikki Grimes --
Calling dreams / Georgia Douglas Johnson --
The Sculptor / Nikki Grimes --
We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar --
Jabari unmasked / rNikki Grimes --
Mother to son / Langston Hughes --
Lessons / Nikki Grimes --
As the eagle soars / Jean Toomer --
No hamsters here / Nikki Grimes --
An except from To Usward / Gwendolyn Bennett --
In search of a superpower / Nikki Grimes --
Hope / Georgia Douglas Johnson --
On bully patrol / Nikki Grimes --
The Negro speaks of rivers / rLangston Hughes --
David's old soul / Nikki Grimes --
To a dark girl / Gwendolyn Bennett --
Through the eyes of artists / Nikki Grimes --
Common dust / Georgia Douglas Johnson --
A Dark date for Josh / Nikki Grimes --
No images / Waring Cuney --
Blurred beauty / Nikki Grimes --
The Minor key / Clara Ann Thompson --
Common denominator / Nikki Grimes --
I leave the glory days / Nikki Grimes.