Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.
Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.
Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.
America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be!
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.