Whose little boy are you?

James Baldwin

Stichwörter: god youth religion church black epiphany james-baldwin racism coming-of-age african-american renaissance harlem institution



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Good morning, daddy!
Ain't you heard
The boogie-woogie rumble
Of a dream deferred?

Listen closely:
You'll hear their feet
Beating out and beating out a -

You think
It's a happy beat?

Listen to it closely:
Ain't you heard
something underneath
like a -

What did I say?

Sure,
I'm happy!
Take it away!
Dream Boogie

Hey, pop!
Re-bop!
Mop!

Y-e-a-h!

Langston Hughes

Stichwörter: poetry dream poet harlem boogie



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Naturally, this country can't stand truth.

Lewis H. Michaux

Stichwörter: writer harlem 1973 blackpower-mixtape



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Black is beautiful. Black isn’t power. Knowledge is power. You can be black as a crow or white as snow but if you don’t know and you ain’t got no dough, you can’t go and that’s for sho’.

Lewis H. Michaux

Stichwörter: writer harlem 1973 blackpower-mixtape



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... Harlem was home; was where we belonged; where we knew and were known in return; where we felt most alive; where, if need be, somebody had to take us in. Harlem defined us, claiming our consciousness and, I suspect, our unconsciousness. (Page 64)

Ossie Davis

Stichwörter: harlem



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Harlem sleeps late.

Jacob M. Appel

Stichwörter: new-york new-york-city harlem big-apple gotham



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