#Americans #Blacks
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,
Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think
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
The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss.
I work all day, Said Simple John, Myself a house to buy. I work all day, Said Simple John,
been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done
You and your whole race. Look down upon the town in which y… And be ashamed. Look down upon white folks And upon yourselves
The rent man knocked. He said, Howdy—do? I said, What Can I do for you? He said, You know
Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh,
When the shoe strings break On both your shoes And you’re in a hurry— That’s the blues. When you go to buy a candy bar
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run?
The ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond and jade, Sit silently on their temple shelv… While the people
In an envelope marked: PERSONAL God addressed me a letter. In an envelope marked: PERSONAL
It’s such a Bore Being always Poor.
