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To fling my arms wide In some place of the sun, To whirl and to dance Till the white day is done. Then rest at cool evening
I play it cool I dig all jive. That's the reason I stay alive. My motto
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
Landlord, landlord, My roof has sprung a leak. Don’t you 'member I told you abou… Way last week? Landlord, landlord,
I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the w… My soul has grown deep like the ri… I bathed in the Euphrates when da… I built my hut near the Congo and…
Only dumb guys fight. If I wasn’t dumb I wouldn’t be fightin’. I could make six dollars a day On the docks
I worked for a woman, She wasn’t mean— But she had a twelve—room House to clean. Had to get breakfast,
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,
Clean the spittoons, boy. Detroit, Chicago, Atlantic City, Palm Beach.
You say I O.K.ed LONG DISTANCE? O.K.ed it when? My goodness, Central That was then!
Good morning, daddy! Ain’t you heard The boogie—woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Listen closely:
Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right
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…
We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark
God in His infinite wisdom Did not make me very wise— So when my actions are stupid They hardly take God by surprise