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!

Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.

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

A dream deferred is a dream denied.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.

I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?