1. Fenton Johnson, “I am tired of building someone else’s civilization” — Here it is important to witness the incomparable depths of Black Nihilism, what’s the cost of building the empire and being discarded by it?
2. Paul Laurence Dunbar
3. Marc Chagall, “Then the angel led me to the river of the water o’ life”
4. Kerry James Marshall, “The Invisible Man”
8. Franz Kafka
10. Herman Melville
11. Neale Hurston
12. Langston Hughes “Laugh to Keep from Crying”
13. Henry David Thoreau “Do you know what makes the prison door disappear?”
14. Richard Wright
15. Federico García Lorca, “Quemaré el Partenón para por la noche”; “Qué voy a decir de esas nubes? Mirar, mirar, mirarlas, mirarle, y nada más.”
16. Rolling Stones, “Gimme sum Sugar!”
17. Nina Simone
18. Simon & Garfunkel
19. Romare Bearden
20. Georgia O’Keeffe
21. Edna St. Vincent Millay
22. Junot Diaz
23. Claude Monet
24. Sor Juana
25. Blanka Amezkua https://www.blankaamezkua.com/index.html
26. Claude McKay, “A chafing savage”; James Russell Lowell, “Careless seems the great avenger”
27. W.E.B. DuBois, “Dogged strength alone prevents from being torn asunder!”
28. James Baldwin, “If you don’t know my name you don’t know your own.”
29. Jean Toomer, “telephone the powerhouse / that the main wires are insulate”
30. William Blake
31. Egon Schiele
32. Gerard Manley Hopkins
33. El Greco
34. Claudia Muñoz 35. Natalia Méndez a.k.a Mamá Morada