These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.
I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.
Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first -- before it boomerangs.