#Americans #Blacks
By what sends the white kids I ain’t sent: I know I can’t be President.
Night funeral In Harlem: Where did they get Them two fine cars? Insurance man, he did not pay—
I went to the Gypsy’s. Gypsy settin’ all alone. I said, Tell me, Gypsy, When will my gal be home? Gypsy said, Silver,
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
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.…
Clean the spittoons, boy. Detroit, Chicago, Atlantic City, Palm Beach.
I catch the pattern Of your silence Before you speak I do not need To hear a word.
It’s such a Bore Being always Poor.
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 ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond and jade, Sit silently on their temple shelv… While the people
How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water
The night is beautiful, So the faces of my people. The stars are beautiful, So the eyes of my people. Beautiful, also, is the sun.
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run?
How quiet It is in this sick room Where on the bed A silent woman lies between two lo… Life and Death,
Goin’ down the road, Lawd, Goin’ down the road. Down the road, Lawd, Way, way down the road. Got to find somebody
