#Americans #Blacks
You sicken me with lies, With truthful lies. And with your pious faces. And your wide, out—stretched, mock—welcome, Christian hands.
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…
It would be nice In any case, To someday meet you Face to face Walking down
How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water
Down in the bass That steady beat Walking walking walking Like marching feet. Down in the bass
In places like Selma, Alabama, Kids say, In places like Chicago and New York...
I play it cool I dig all jive. That's the reason I stay alive. My motto
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
Listen! Dear dream of utter aliveness— Touching my body of utter death— Tell me, O quickly! dream of aliv… The flaming source of your bright…
Where is the Jim Crow section On this merry—go—round, Mister, cause I want to ride? Down South where I come from White and colored
I know I am The Negro Problem Being wined and dined, Answering the usual questions That come to white mind
Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think
Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right
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…
By what sends the white kids I ain’t sent: I know I can’t be President.
