Life for me ain't been no crystal stair

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

What happens to a dream deferred?

This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America - this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible.

Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.

Harriet Tubman lived to see the harvest.

Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?