#Americans #Blacks
I sat there singing her Songs in the dark. She said; 'I do not understand The words’.
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 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,
Children, I come back today To tell you a story of the long da… That I had to climb, that I had t… In order that the race might live… Look at my face —dark as the night…
I look at the world From awakening eyes in a black fac… And this is what I see: This fenced—off narrow space Assigned to me.
I am God— Without one friend, Alone in my purity World without end. Below me young lovers
Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow… I heard a Negro play. Down on Lenox Avenue the other ni… By the pale dull pallor of an old…
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,
Now dreams Are not available To the dreamers, Nor songs To the singers.
I play it cool I dig all jive. That's the reason I stay alive. My motto
Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is… (America never was America to me.…
Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt
I catch the pattern Of your silence Before you speak I do not need To hear a word.
I am your son, white man! Georgia dusk And the turpentine woods. One of the pillars of the temple f… You are my son!
Tell all my mourners To mourn in red — Cause there ain’t no sense In my bein’ dead.
