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.

Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.

When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.

Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.

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

Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.