A dream deferred is a dream denied.

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

Looks like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on you-- But I'm gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.

I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

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

Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that will not stock a book by a Negro writer, not even as a gift? There are towns where Negro newspapers and magazines cannot be sold except surreptitiously. There are American magazines that have never published anything by Negroes. There are film studios that have never hired a Negro writer. Censorship for us begins at the color line.