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

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again!

Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.

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.

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

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

Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.