The Book of American Negro Poetry/And What Shall You Say?

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A Prayer

The Book of American Negro Poetry
edited by James Weldon Johnson

And What Shall You Say? by Joseph Seamon Cotter

Is It Because I Am Black?

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3894965The Book of American Negro Poetry — And What Shall You Say?James Weldon JohnsonJoseph Seamon Cotter (1895-1919)

AND WHAT SHALL YOU SAY?

Brother, come! And let us go unto our God. And when we stand before Him I shall say— "Lord, I do not hate, I am hated. I scourge no one, I am scourged. I covet no lands,My lands are coveted. I mock no peoples, My people are mocked." And, brother, what shall you say?

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