#Americans #Blacks
How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water
From Christ to Ghandi Appears this truth— St. Francis of Assisi Proves it, too: Goodness becomes grandeur
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…
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 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.…
I would liken you To a night without stars Were it not for your eyes. I would liken you To a sleep without dreams
You and your whole race. Look down upon the town in which y… And be ashamed. Look down upon white folks And upon yourselves
I catch the pattern Of your silence Before you speak I do not need To hear a word.
Tell all my mourners To mourn in red — Cause there ain’t no sense In my bein’ dead.
Here I sit With my shoes mismated. Lawdy—mercy! I’s frustrated!
You say I O.K.ed LONG DISTANCE? O.K.ed it when? My goodness, Central That was then!
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…
Big Boy came Carrying a mermaid On his shoulders And the mermaid Had her tail
'Me an’ ma baby’s Got two mo’ ways, Two mo’ ways to do de Charleston!… Da, da, Da, da, da!
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?