#Americans #Blacks
I am God— Without one friend, Alone in my purity World without end. Below me young lovers
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…
2 and 2 are 4. 4 and 4 are 8. But what would happen If the last 4 was late? And how would it be
When I get to be a composer I’m gonna write me some music abou… Daybreak in Alabama And I’m gonna put the purtiest so… Rising out of the ground like a sw…
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run?
Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right
Have you dug the spill Of Sugar Hill? Cast your gims On this sepia thrill: Brown sugar lassie,
I play it cool I dig all jive. That's the reason I stay alive. My motto
Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you— Then, it will be true. I wonder if it’s that simple?
I am your son, white man! Georgia dusk And the turpentine woods. One of the pillars of the temple f… You are my son!
From Christ to Ghandi Appears this truth— St. Francis of Assisi Proves it, too: Goodness becomes grandeur
My old man’s a white old man And my old mother’s black. If ever I cursed my white old man I take my curses back. If ever I cursed my black old mot…
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.
When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left
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
