Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.

A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.

I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.

What happens to a dream deferred?

Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul

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

I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?