What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?

Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first -- before it boomerangs.

Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!

Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.

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

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

Let the rain sing you a lullaby.