Whose little boy are you?
James BaldwinTags: god youth religion church black epiphany james-baldwin racism coming-of-age african-american renaissance harlem institution
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!
Tags: poetry dream poet harlem boogie
Naturally, this country can't stand truth.
Lewis H. MichauxTags: writer harlem 1973 blackpower-mixtape
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. MichauxTags: writer harlem 1973 blackpower-mixtape
... 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 DavisTags: harlem
Harlem sleeps late.
Jacob M. AppelTags: new-york new-york-city harlem big-apple gotham
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