Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank.
Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
I loved my friend He went away from me There’s nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend.
I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.
Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.
Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
Life is a egg you have to be patient and carefull with it or it will brake.
Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
I will not take ‘but’ for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy’s ‘but’ too long.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams...
Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
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.
If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.