#Americans #Blacks
I take my dreams and make of them… and a round fountain with a beauti… And a song with a broken heart and… Do you understand my dreams? Sometimes you say you do,
How quiet It is in this sick room Where on the bed A silent woman lies between two lo… Life and Death,
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh,
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
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…
I sat there singing her Songs in the dark. She said; 'I do not understand The words’.
I would liken you To a night without stars Were it not for your eyes. I would liken you To a sleep without dreams
I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the w… flow of human blood in human veins My soul has grown deep like the ri… I bathed in the Euphrates when da…
In places like Selma, Alabama, Kids say, In places like Chicago and New York...
We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark
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,
Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt
When I was home de Sunshine seemed like gold. When I was home de Sunshine seemed like gold. Since I come up North de
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.…
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.
