Amiri Baraka - Who Will Survive America lyrics

Who will survive in America? Few Americans Very few Negroes No crackers at all Will you survive in America With your 20 cent habit? Yo, 4-bag Jones, will you Survive in the heat and fire Of actual change? I doubt it Will you survive, woman? Or will your nylon wig Catch afire at midnight and light up Stirling Street And your a**prints on the pavement. Grease melting in this Brother's eyes, his profile shot up by a Simba thinking Who was coming around the corner was really Tony Curtis And not a misguided brother, got his mind hanging out with Italians Who will survive? The black future will You can't with the fat stomach between your ears Scraping nickels out the inside of n******g daydreams Few Americans Very few Negroes... maybe no Red Negroes at all The stiffbacked chalklady baptist, in blue lace If she shrinks from blackness in front of the church Following the wedding of the yellow robots Will not survive. She is old anyway, and they're moving Her church in the wind Old people? No Christians? No First Negroes to be invisible to Truth, 1944, Minnesota? No Nothing of that will be anywhere It will be burned clean It might sink and steam up the sea. America might And no Americans, very few Negroes, will get out No crackers at all But the black man will survive America His survival will mean the d**h of America Survive Blackman! Survive Blackman! Survive Blackman! (Black woman too) Let us all survive, who need to OK? And we wish each other luck!