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

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!

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

I know how to handle women who act like ladies, but my landlady ain't no lady. Sometimes I even wish I was living with my wife again so I could have my own place and not have no landladies.

Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.

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