Imagine the lifestyles of African-Americans leaders, present and past; and, the individuals whose toughness, resilience, and eloquent nature became the essence of what we've carried in life, like emotional deliverance from tolerating, permitting, voicing, and suffering the varied consequential nature of culture and society. Often, I engage readers in evaluating traumatic instances of self- identity, in a country whose economic barriers separate more than culture. I address human emotion and issues involving social concerns and cultural conflict, along with environmental factors in society and gender roles. Urban themes enhance individual perspective for those entertained by situations involving cultural defiance, such as the descriptive verse in the poems: Jonah's Gourd and Sister Outsider. Both poems measure closure and human endurance having individual character and personal striving accompany the landscape of literary blackness.Contents: Foreword Imagining Literary Blackness, Migration North, Sister Outsider, Observers, Dark Chocolate, Black Sabbath Day, From 1972, Eulogy For Eugene O'Donnel, The announcement of Plan B: (Emergency Classroom Procedures), Prisoner, Middle Passage, As I Lay Dying, Cell Block, Anthem for Dying Young, And the Church Said Amen, Daniel and the Lion, Jewels, Among Many Rivals, King and the Dream, A Soliloquy of Slumber, Short Poems, Megan's Day One, Rose Buds, To Take Away Mobility, Fabled Days, Bed Time Stories, Jonah's Gourd, About the author.