<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416462" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Black Mammy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O whitened head entwined in turban gay,<br>O kind black face, O crude, but tender hand,<br>O foster-mother in whose arms there lay<br>The race whose sons are masters of the land!<br>It was thine arms that sheltered in their fold,<br>It was thine eyes that followed through the length<br>Of infant days these sons. In times of old<br>It was thy breast that nourished them to strength.<br>So often hast thou to thy bosom pressed<br>The golden head, the face and brow of snow;<br>So often has it 'gainst thy broad, dark breast<br>Lain, set off like a quickened cameo.<br>Thou simple soul, as cuddling down that babe<br>With thy sweet croon, so plaintive and so wild,<br>Came ne'er the thought to thee, swift like a stab,<br>That it some day might crush thine own black child?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Weldon+Johnson">James Weldon Johnson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416462" data-title="The Black Mammy de James Weldon Johnson" data-description="O whitened head entwined in turban gay, O kind black face, O crude, but tender hand, O foster-mother in whose arms there lay The race whose sons are masters of the land! It was thine arms that sheltered in their fold, It was thine eyes that follow..."></div> </div> </div>

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