#AmericanWriters
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…
I’m all alone in this world, she s… Ain’t got nobody to share my bed, Ain’t got nobody to hold my hand— The truth of the matter’s I ain’t got no man.
Goin’ down the road, Lawd, Goin’ down the road. Down the road, Lawd, Way, way down the road. Got to find somebody
Listen! Dear dream of utter aliveness— Touching my body of utter death— Tell me, O quickly! dream of aliv… The flaming source of your bright…
The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss.
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…
Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you— Then, it will be true. I wonder if it’s that simple?
I play it cool I dig all jive. That's the reason I stay alive. My motto
How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water
2 and 2 are 4. 4 and 4 are 8. But what would happen If the last 4 was late? And how would it be
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.
Night funeral In Harlem: Where did they get Them two fine cars? Insurance man, he did not pay—
I know I am The Negro Problem Being wined and dined, Answering the usual questions That come to white mind
He glides so swiftly Back into the grass— Gives me the courtesy of road To let me pass, That I am half ashamed
Clean the spittoons, boy. Detroit, Chicago, Atlantic City, Palm Beach.