I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.

I will not take "but" for an answer.

Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me

Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be.

There is no color line in death. I swear to the lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me. O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath - America will be! I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.

Your explanation depresses me," I said. "Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple.