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
A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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.
As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.