Good morning, daddy!Ain't you heardThe boogie-woogie rumbleOf a dream deferred?Listen closely:You'll hear their feetBeating out and beating out a -You thinkIt's a happy beat?Listen to it closely:Ain't you heardsomething underneathlike a -What did I say?Sure,I'm happy!Take it away!Dream BoogieHey, pop!Re-bop!Mop!Y-e-a-h!

~ Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes Boogie Dream Harlem Poet Poetry

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

Lewis H. Michaux 1973 Blackpower Mixtape Harlem Writer

Naturally, this country can't stand truth.

~ Lewis H. Michaux

Lewis H. Michaux 1973 Blackpower Mixtape Harlem Writer