Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.

Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.

Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.

I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.

A dream deferred is a dream denied.

I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.

These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.