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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…
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh,
I dream a world where man No other man will scorn, Where love will bless the earth And peace its paths adorn I dream a world where all
I play it cool I dig all jive. That's the reason I stay alive. My motto
I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank. I came up once and hollered!
Landlord, landlord, My roof has sprung a leak. Don’t you 'member I told you abou… Way last week? Landlord, landlord,
Clean the spittoons, boy. Detroit, Chicago, Atlantic City, Palm Beach.
Night funeral In Harlem: Where did they get Them two fine cars? Insurance man, he did not pay—
You say I O.K.ed LONG DISTANCE? O.K.ed it when? My goodness, Central That was then!
Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal… It’s had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up,
God in His infinite wisdom Did not make me very wise— So when my actions are stupid They hardly take God by surprise
That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are w… Her bandage hides two festering so… That once perhaps were eyes.
You sicken me with lies, With truthful lies. And with your pious faces. And your wide, out—stretched, mock—welcome, Christian hands.
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run?
How quiet It is in this sick room Where on the bed A silent woman lies between two lo… Life and Death,