So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

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

So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.

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.

When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.

Life dosent frighten me at all.