#Americans #Blacks
You say I O.K.ed LONG DISTANCE? O.K.ed it when? My goodness, Central That was then!
I work all day, Said Simple John, Myself a house to buy. I work all day, Said Simple John,
I play it cool I dig all jive. That's the reason I stay alive. My motto
You sicken me with lies, With truthful lies. And with your pious faces. And your wide, out—stretched, mock—welcome, Christian hands.
been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done
When I get to be a composer I’m gonna write me some music abou… Daybreak in Alabama And I’m gonna put the purtiest so… Rising out of the ground like a sw…
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…
The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss.
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.…
God in His infinite wisdom Did not make me very wise— So when my actions are stupid They hardly take God by surprise
When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left
Love Is a ripe plum Growing on a purple tree. Taste it once And the spell of its enchantment
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
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…
The rent man knocked. He said, Howdy—do? I said, What Can I do for you? He said, You know
