a dream deferred is a dream denied. |
America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath- America will be! |
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. |
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. |
But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America—and change soon. We must help that change to come. |
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. |
Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly, Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams go, Life is a barren field, Frozen with snow |
Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field, frozen with snow. |
Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. |
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. |
I am amazed that my work of Dylan was chosen as his portrait, |
I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer. |
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go. |
I swear to the Lord I still can't see why Democracy means everybody but me |
I will not take "but" for an answer |