#Americans #Blacks
been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done
Clean the spittoons, boy. Detroit, Chicago, Atlantic City, Palm Beach.
How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water
I could take the Harlem night and wrap around you, Take the neon lights and make a cr… Take the Lenox Avenue busses, Taxis, subways,
He glides so swiftly Back into the grass— Gives me the courtesy of road To let me pass, That I am half ashamed
When Susanna Jones wears red her face is like an ancient cameo Turned brown by the ages. Come with a blast of trumphets, J… When Susanna Jones wears red
You and your whole race. Look down upon the town in which y… And be ashamed. Look down upon white folks And upon yourselves
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run?
In an envelope marked: PERSONAL God addressed me a letter. In an envelope marked: PERSONAL
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
By what sends the white kids I ain’t sent: I know I can’t be President.
The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss.
How quiet It is in this sick room Where on the bed A silent woman lies between two lo… Life and Death,
I take my dreams and make of them… and a round fountain with a beauti… And a song with a broken heart and… Do you understand my dreams? Sometimes you say you do,
Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think
