"I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread."

"I have had my say about the world, and the world has had its say about me."

"Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it."

"I'm so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become a loving place?"

"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it j…"