#Americans #Blacks
That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are w… Her bandage hides two festering so… That once perhaps were eyes.
The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss.
By what sends the white kids I ain’t sent: I know I can’t be President.
And that is what poetry may do, wrap up your dreams, protect and preserve and hold them until maybe they come true. Columbus dreamed of finding a new world, he found it. Edison dreamed ...
Landlord, landlord, My roof has sprung a leak. Don’t you 'member I told you abou… Way last week? Landlord, landlord,
It’s such a Bore Being always Poor.
been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done
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—
Being walkers with the dawn and mo… Walkers with the sun and morning, We are not afraid of night, Nor days of gloom, Nor darkness—
When I was home de Sunshine seemed like gold. When I was home de Sunshine seemed like gold. Since I come up North de
When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left
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 live on a park bench. You, Park Avenue. Hell of a distance Between us two. I beg a dime for dinner—
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh,
Here I sit With my shoes mismated. Lawdy—mercy! I’s frustrated!
