Wear it Like a banner For the proud Not like a shroud.
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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.James Langston Hughes
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.
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I got the Weary Blues And I cant be satisfied.
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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.
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I am a Negro Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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Rest a pale evening ... A tall slim tree ... Night coming tenderly Black like me.
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