I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.