I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

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 am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.

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

I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.

One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.

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