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Quotes by Songwriter

"I cannot say to a person who suffers injustice, 'Wait.' Perhaps you can. I can't. And having decided that I cannot urge caution I must stand with him."

"Judge not, lest you be so fearful of judgment that you can hardly breath."

"I am not on this planet to get something done - the things we accomplish are expressions of our purpose."

"Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself."

"If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated."
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