ThursdayNov 20, 2025
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I got the Weary Blues And I cant be satisfied.
It is the duty of the younger Negro artist ... to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro and beautiful!'
Quick, sunrise, come! Sunrise out of Africa, Quick, come!
Ive known rivers: Ive known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in Human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Good morning, daddy! Aint you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? You think Its a happy beat?
I swear to the Lord, I still cant see, Why Democracy means, Everybody but me.
Wear it Like a banner For the proud Not like a shroud.
I will not take 'but' for an answer.
Rest a pale evening ... A tall slim tree ... Night coming tenderly Black like me.
Negro blood is sure powerful because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop you are a Negro! ... Black is powerful.
I am the American heartbreak The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly.
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Melting pot Harlem Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall ... where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Maybe it just sags Like a heavy load. Or does it explode?
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
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