I've been a dishwasher, a cook, a busboy, a waiter, a laundress, a delivery boy, a truck driver, a chauffeur, a gardener, a bellhop, a doorman, a houseman, a janitor, a porter, a longshoreman, a seaman, a coal miner, a steel worker, a factory hand, a farm hand, a construction worker, a ditch digger, a street sweeper, a garbage collector, a rag picker, a shoe shine boy, a newsboy, a messenger boy, a telegraph boy, a stable boy, a jockey, a boxer, a wrestler, a dancer, a singer, a musician, an actor, a comedian, a storyteller, a lecturer, a journalist, an editor, a publisher, a librarian, a teacher, a social worker, a lawyer, a doctor, a minister, a politician, a revolutionary, a philosopher, a scientist, an inventor, an artist, a writer, a poet.
Harlem Renaissance poet