You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.
Source: Gifted and Black, 1959.
-- James Weldon Johnson, (Jun 17 1871-1938), US poet, diplomat, anthologist; He is noted for his poetry and anthologies of black culture; wrote The Book of American Negro Poetry, 1921.