I was so sick last night I Didn’t hardly know my mind. So sick last night I Didn’t know my mind. I drunk some bad licker that

In the Quarter of the Negroes Where the doors are doors of paper Dust of dingy atoms Blows a scratchy sound. Amorphous jack—o’—Lanterns caper

It was a long time ago. I have almost forgotten my dream. But it was there then, In front of me, Bright like a sun—

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

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

Night funeral In Harlem: Where did they get Them two fine cars? Insurance man, he did not pay—

The gold moth did not love him So, gorgeous, she flew away. But the gray moth circled the flam… Until the break of day. And then, with wings like a dead d…

I work all day, Said Simple John, Myself a house to buy. I work all day, Said Simple John,

been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done

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…