#Americans #Blacks
I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the w… flow of human blood in human veins My soul has grown deep like the ri… I bathed in the Euphrates when da…
When a man starts out with nothing… When a man starts out with his han… Empty, but clean, When a man starts to build a world… He starts first with himself
Down in the bass That steady beat Walking walking walking Like marching feet. Down in the bass
And that is what poetry may do, wrap up your dreams, protect and preserve and hold them until maybe they come true. Columbus dreamed of finding a new world, he found it. Edison dreamed ...
It would be nice In any case, To someday meet you Face to face Walking down
When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left
I sat there singing her Songs in the dark. She said; 'I do not understand The words’.
I will take you heart. I will take your soul out of your… As though I were God. I will not be satisfied With the touch of your hand
We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark
Clean the spittoons, boy. Detroit, Chicago, Atlantic City, Palm Beach.
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh,
I play it cool I dig all jive. That's the reason I stay alive. My motto
I worked for a woman, She wasn’t mean— But she had a twelve—room House to clean. Had to get breakfast,
It was a long time ago. I have almost forgotten my dream. But it was there then, In front of me, Bright like a sun—
I was so sick last night I Didn’t hardly know my mind. So sick last night I Didn’t know my mind. I drunk some bad licker that