Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.

I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.

It were depression, too. They cut my wages down once at the foundry. They cut my wages down again. Then they cut my wages out, also the job.

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

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.