#Americans #Blacks
I will take you heart. I will take your soul out of your… As though I were God. I will not be satisfied With the touch of your hand
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.
Now dreams Are not available To the dreamers, Nor songs To the singers.
Fine living . . . a la carte? Come to the Waldorf—Astoria! LISTEN HUNGRY ONES! Look! See what Vanity Fair says… new Waldorf—Astoria:
By what sends the white kids I ain’t sent: I know I can’t be President.
Here I sit With my shoes mismated. Lawdy—mercy! I’s frustrated!
been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done
The ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond and jade, Sit silently on their temple shelv… While the people
I sat there singing her Songs in the dark. She said; 'I do not understand The words’.
You say I O.K.ed LONG DISTANCE? O.K.ed it when? My goodness, Central That was then!
Love Is a ripe plum Growing on a purple tree. Taste it once And the spell of its enchantment
Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think
She, In the dark, Found light Brighter than many ever see. She,
When a man starts out with nothing… When a man starts out with his han… Empty, but clean, When a man starts to build a world… He starts first with himself
We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark