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The night is beautiful, so are the faces of my people.
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The night is beautiful, so are the faces of my people.
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed —
I, too, am America.
I got the weary blues and I can't be satisfied.
I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.
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!.
Sure, call me any ugly name you choose, the steel of freedom does not stain. From those who live like leeches on the people's lives, we must take back our land again, America!
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
Love is a naked shadow
On a gnarled and naked tree.
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.