Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.

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

Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

I don't dare start thinking in the morning. I don't dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head-- So I don't dare start thinking in the morning.

It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.