漫長的路

總統夫人自然、親民，身材fit，演講技巧嫻熟，智慧、舉止得體。




貼2首黑人詩人的作品，看非裔走到今天所經曆的漫長道路。

1. Heritage
                  -- by Gwendolyn Bennett （1923）

I want to see the slim palm-trees,
Pulling at the clouds
With little pointed fingers....

I want to see lithe Negro girls,
Etched dark against the sky
While sunset lingers.

I want to hear the silent sands,
Singing to the moon
Before the Sphinx-still face....

I want to hear the chanting
Around a heathen fire
Of a strange black race.

I want to breathe the Lotus flow'r,
Sighing to the stars
With tendrils drinking at the Nile....

I want to feel the surging
Of my sad people's soul
Hidden by a minsrel-smile.



2. The Negro Speaks of Rivers

                      -- by Langston Hughes （1920）
 I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
     flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln 
     went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy 
     bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.      作者原聲朗讀： www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15722