#Americans #Blacks
I will take you heart. I will take your soul out of your… As though I were God. I will not be satisfied With the touch of your hand
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,
Have you dug the spill Of Sugar Hill? Cast your gims On this sepia thrill: Brown sugar lassie,
To fling my arms wide In some place of the sun, To whirl and to dance Till the white day is done. Then rest at cool evening
Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right
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
Here I sit With my shoes mismated. Lawdy—mercy! I’s frustrated!
Let’s go see Old Abe Sitting in the marble and the moon… Sitting lonely in the marble and t… Quiet for ten thousand centuries,… Quiet for a million, million years…
Night funeral In Harlem: Where did they get Them two fine cars? Insurance man, he did not pay—
Love Is a ripe plum Growing on a purple tree. Taste it once And the spell of its enchantment
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run?
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head w… Let the rain sing you a lullaby. The rain makes still pools on the… The rain makes running pools in th…
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—
Big Boy came Carrying a mermaid On his shoulders And the mermaid Had her tail
Good morning, daddy! Ain’t you heard The boogie—woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Listen closely: