It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.

I wish the rent Was heaven sent.

I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

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

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

Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!

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