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[|Great Black American Poets]

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Young women, young men of color, we add our voices to the voices of your ancestors who speak to you over ancient seas and across impassible mountain tops.**//

//**Come up from the gloom of national neglect, you have already been paid for.**// //**Come out of the shadow of irrational prejudice, you owe no racial debt to history.

The blood of our bodies and prayers of our souls have bought you a future free from shame and bright beyond the telling of it.**//

//**We pledge ourselves and our resources to seek for you clean and well furnished schools, safe and non-threatening streets, employment which makes use of your talents, but does not degrade your dignity.**//

//**You are the best we have. You are all we have. You are what we have become.**// //**We pledge you our whole hearts from this day forward**//