Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.

If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.

Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.

America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be!

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.

Believing everything she read In the daily news, (No in-between to choose) She thought that only One side won, Not that BOTH Might lose.

Let the rain sing you a lullaby.