Good morning, daddy! Ain’t you heard The boogie—woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Listen closely:

Harlem Sent him home in a long box— Too dead To know why:

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,

It was a long time ago. I have almost forgotten my dream. But it was there then, In front of me, Bright like a sun—

Here I sit With my shoes mismated. Lawdy—mercy! I’s frustrated!

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.…

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…

Where is the Jim Crow section On this merry—go—round, Mister, cause I want to ride? Down South where I come from White and colored