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How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water
In places like Selma, Alabama, Kids say, In places like Chicago and New York...
And that is what poetry may do, wrap up your dreams, protect and preserve and hold them until maybe they come true. Columbus dreamed of finding a new world, he found it. Edison dreamed ...
My old man’s a white old man And my old mother’s black. If ever I cursed my white old man I take my curses back. If ever I cursed my black old mot…
Goin’ down the road, Lawd, Goin’ down the road. Down the road, Lawd, Way, way down the road. Got to find somebody
I look at the world From awakening eyes in a black fac… And this is what I see: This fenced—off narrow space Assigned to me.
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run?
From Christ to Ghandi Appears this truth— St. Francis of Assisi Proves it, too: Goodness becomes grandeur
Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right
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
I catch the pattern Of your silence Before you speak I do not need To hear a word.
Being walkers with the dawn and mo… Walkers with the sun and morning, We are not afraid of night, Nor days of gloom, Nor darkness—
I sat there singing her Songs in the dark. She said; 'I do not understand The words’.
My name is Johnson— Madam Alberta K. The Madam stands for business. I’m smart that way. I had a
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
