A dream deferred is a dream denied.

I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that's in my mind.

Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.

Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale.

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

I will not take "but" for an answer.

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

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.

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

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.