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

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.

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.

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.

Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain.

The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.