#AmericanWriters
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
Children, I come back today To tell you a story of the long da… That I had to climb, that I had t… In order that the race might live… Look at my face —dark as the night…
You say I O.K.ed LONG DISTANCE? O.K.ed it when? My goodness, Central That was then!
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,
How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water
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 sat there singing her Songs in the dark. She said; 'I do not understand The words’.
I am your son, white man! Georgia dusk And the turpentine woods. One of the pillars of the temple f… You are my son!
When a man starts out with nothing… When a man starts out with his han… Empty, but clean, When a man starts to build a world… He starts first with himself
How quiet It is in this sick room Where on the bed A silent woman lies between two lo… Life and Death,
Only dumb guys fight. If I wasn’t dumb I wouldn’t be fightin’. I could make six dollars a day On the docks
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh,
been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done
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…
You and your whole race. Look down upon the town in which y… And be ashamed. Look down upon white folks And upon yourselves