The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again!

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

I will not take "but" for an answer.

The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.