Whose little boy are you?

James Baldwin

Mots clés 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

Mots clés poetry dream poet harlem boogie

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Naturally, this country can't stand truth.

Lewis H. Michaux

Mots clés 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

Mots clés 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

Mots clés harlem

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Harlem sleeps late.

Jacob M. Appel

Mots clés new-york new-york-city harlem big-apple gotham

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