#Americans #Blacks
You and your whole race. Look down upon the town in which y… And be ashamed. Look down upon white folks And upon yourselves
I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the w… My soul has grown deep like the ri… I bathed in the Euphrates when da… I built my hut near the Congo and…
When the old junk man Death Comes to gather up our bodies And toss them into the sack of obl… I wonder if he will find The corpse of a white multi—millio…
In the Quarter of the Negroes Where the doors are doors of paper Dust of dingy atoms Blows a scratchy sound. Amorphous jack—o’—Lanterns caper
Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right
Let’s go see Old Abe Sitting in the marble and the moon… Sitting lonely in the marble and t… Quiet for ten thousand centuries,… Quiet for a million, million years…
I sat there singing her Songs in the dark. She said; 'I do not understand The words’.
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run?
I’m all alone in this world, she s… Ain’t got nobody to share my bed, Ain’t got nobody to hold my hand— The truth of the matter’s I ain’t got no man.
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…
The night is beautiful, So the faces of my people. The stars are beautiful, So the eyes of my people. Beautiful, also, is the sun.
The rent man knocked. He said, Howdy—do? I said, What Can I do for you? He said, You know
By what sends the white kids I ain’t sent: I know I can’t be President.
Big Boy came Carrying a mermaid On his shoulders And the mermaid Had her tail
Have you dug the spill Of Sugar Hill? Cast your gims On this sepia thrill: Brown sugar lassie,