QUOTE : I am a Negro:<br /> Black as the night is black,<br /> Black like the depths of my Africa.<br />I’ve been a slave:<br /> Cæsar told me to keep his door-steps clean.<br /> I brushed the boots of Washington.<br />I’ve been a worker:<br /> Under my hand the pyramids arose.<br /> I made mortar for the Woolworth Building.<br />I’ve been a singer:<br /> All the way from Africa to Georgia<br /> I carried my sorrow songs.<br /> I made ragtime.<br />I’ve been a victim:<br /> The Belgians cut off my hands in the Congo.<br /> They lynch me now in Texas.<br />I am a Negro:<br /> Black as the night is black,<br /> Black like the depths of my Africa.