"We never talked about men or clothes or inconsequential things we got together. It was always Marx, Lenin and revolut…"

"When the poets rhyme in the summertime/You'll hear melodies in the words"

"Well I wish I could be like a bird in the sky/How sweet it would be/If I found I could fly/I'd soar to the sun/And lo…"

"Mr. Backlash, Mr. Backlash/Just who do you think I am?/You raise my taxes, freeze my wages/And send my son to Vietnam…"

"the world is big/Big and bright and round/And it's full of folks like me/Who are black, yellow, beige and brown"

"I wish I could share all the love that's in my heart/Remove all the bars that keep us apart/I wish you could know wha…"

"Hound dogs on my trail/School children sitting in jail/Black cat cross my path/I think every day's gonna be my last/D…"

"Picket lines, school boycotts/They try to say it's a communist plot/All I want is equality/For my sister, my brother,…"

"What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did."

"This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it."