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Page 662 - Your door is shut against my tightened face, And I am sharp as steel with discontent; But I possess the courage and the grace To bear my anger proudly and unbent. The pavement slabs burn loose beneath my feet, A chafing savage, down the decent street, And passion rends my vitals as I pass, Where boldly shines your shuttered door of glass.
Page 663 - TO fling my arms wide In some place of the sun, To whirl and to dance Till the white day is done. Then rest at cool evening Beneath a tall tree While night comes on gently, Dark like me— That is my dream! To fling my arms wide In the face of the sun, Dance! whirl! whirl! Till the quick day is done. Rest at pale evening . . . A tall, slim tree, . . . Night coming tenderly, Black...
Page 631 - aunties," "uncles" and "mammies" is equally gone. Uncle Tom and Sambo have passed on, and even the "Colonel" and "George" play barnstorm roles from which they escape with relief when the public spotlight is off. The popular melodrama has about played itself out, and it is time to scrap the fictions, garret the bogeys and settle down to a realistic facing of facts. First we must observe some of the changes which since the traditional lines of opinion were drawn have rendered these quite obsolete....
Page 634 - Our greatest rehabilitation may possibly come through such channels, but for the present, more immediate hope rests in the revaluation by white and black alike of the Negro in terms of his artistic endowments and cultural contributions, past and prospective.
Page 631 - We have tomorrow Bright before us Like a flame. Yesterday, a night-gone thing A sun-down name. And dawn today Broad arch above the road we came. We march! This is what, even more than any 'Imost creditable record of fifty years of freedom," requires that the Negro of to-day be seen th rough Pthf than thp dusty spectacles of past coriffo^" versVj_ The day *of "aunties," "uncles" and "mammies^ "is equalty^gotieT Uncle Tom and SaTn iave passed on, and even the "Colonel...
Page 630 - The clergyman following his errant flock, the physician or lawyer trailing his clients, supply the true clues. In a real sense it is the rank and file who are leading, and the leaders who are following. A transformed and transforming psychology permeates the masses.
Page 670 - For him, a group tradition must supply compensation for persecution, and pride of race the antidote for prejudice.
Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | Harlem, Mecca of the New Negro Survey graphic |
| Rédacteur | A. Locke |
| Édition | réimprimée |
| Éditeur | Black Classic Press, 1980 |
| ISBN | 0933121059, 9780933121058 |
| Longueur | 103 pages |
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