Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

Harriet Tubman lived to see the harvest.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair

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.

America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be!