Pissed Off to the Highest Degree of Pissitivity 

Sojourner Truth

"And a'n't I a Woman?" (1851)

W.E.B. Du Bois

“On Being Crazy” (1923)

Zora Neale Hurston

"'Possum or Pig?" (1926)

"Let Me at the Enemy—an' George Brown" (1944)

Malcolm X

"Message to the Grass Roots" (1963)

Langston Hughes

"Pose-Outs" (1965)

Lightnin' Hopkins

"Cadillac Blues" (performed 1968)

H. Rap Brown

from Die, Nigger, Die! (1969)

Sam Greenlee

from The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1969)

Wanda Coleman

"April 15th 1985," "Identifying Marks," "On that Stuff That Ain't Nevah Been Long Enough for No Damn Body" (c.1985)

Hattie Gossett

"yo daddy: an 80s version of the dozens" (1988)

Amiri Baraka

"Wise 1" (1995)

Cornelius Eady

"The Cab Driver Who Ripped Me Off" (1997)

Tish Benson

"Fifth-Ward E-Mail" (2003)

Al Sharpton

Presidential campaign speech delivered to the San Francisco Commonwealth Club (2003)

Mike Tyson

The Wit and Wisdom of Mike Tyson (1987–2004)

(Nothing Serious) Just Buggin'

Paul Laurence Dunbar

"When De Co'n Pone's Hot" (1895)

Bert Williams

"How Fried?" (1913), and assorted jokes compiled by Alex Rogers (1918)

Rudolph Fisher

"The City of Refuge" (1925)

Zora Neale Hurston

"The Bone of Contention" (c.1929).

George Schuyler

from Black No More (1931)

James Weldon Johnson

"B'rer Rabbit, You's de Cutes' of 'Em All" (1935)

Sterling Brown

"Slim in Atlanta" and "Slim Lands a Job," (1932) and "Crispus Attucks McKoy" (1965)

Gwendolyn Brooks

"at the hairdresser's" (1945), "One reason cats . ." (1968), "A Song in the Front Yard" (1945)

Louis Jordan/Lawrence Ellis Walsh

"Saturday Night Fish Fry" (1949)

Langston Hughes

"Adventure" (c.1962)

Gary Belkin (writing as Muhammad Ali)

"Clay Comes Out to Meet Liston" (1963)

Henry Dumas

"Double Nigger" (1965)

Ishmael Reed

from Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (1969)

Toni Cade Bambara

"The Lesson" (1972).

Etheridge Knight

"Dark Prophecy: I Sing of Shine" "Memo #9," "Rehabilitation and Treatment in the Prisons of America" (1973)

Kyle Baker

"Sands of Blood," from The Cowboy Wally Show (1988)

Spike Lee

from Do the Right Thing (1989)

Patricia Smith

"Boy Sneezes, Head Explodes" (1991)

Darius James

"Lil' Black Zambo," from Negrophobia (1992)

Lord Finesse

"Return of the Funky Man" (1992)

Hilton Als

"The Only One" (1994)

John Farris

In the Park After School with the Girl & the Boy (1994)

Elizabeth Alexander

"Talk Radio, D.C." (1996)

Erika Ellis

from Good Fences (1999)

Percival Everett

from Erasure (2001)

Colson Whitehead

from John Henry Days (2001)

Willie Perdomo

"Should Old Shit Be Forgot" (2003)

Black Absurdity  

Zora Neale Hurston

"Book of Harlem" (c.1921)

Chester Himes

"Dirty Deceivers" (1948) 

Ralph Ellison

from Invisible Man (1952)

Charles Wright

from The Wig (1966)

Bob Kaufman

"Abomunist Manifesto" (1965), "Heavy Water Blues" (1967)

Cecil Brown

from The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger (1969)

Steve Cannon

from Groove, Bang and Jive Around (1969)

Fran Ross

from Oreo (1974)

Franklyn Ajaye

"Be Black, Brother, Be Black" and "Disneyland High" (1977)

Trey Ellis

from Platitudes (1988)

Harriet Mullen

Willie Perdomo

"Nigger-Reecan Blues" (1996)

Danzy Senna

"The Mulatto Millennium" (1998)

John Rodriguez

"How to Be a Street Poet" (1999)

Darius James

from "Froggie Chocolate's Christmas Eve" (2003)

Prophet Omega

"I Am What I Am" and "Swollen Feets" (dates unknown)