“We all want a simple song. We all want to get along. We all want to just belong. We all want to know right from wrong. We all want to love and be loved strong.”
"Love Strong"
The Poets And The Prophet (2006)
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“I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.”
About her documentary I Am Because We Are http://www.youtube.com/user/iambecauseweare
“Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.”
Source: The Soul of a Butterfly (2004), p. xxiv
Context: Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.
In a competition of love we would not be running against one another, but with one another. We would be trying to gain victory for all humanity. If I am a faster runner than you, you may feel bad seeing me pass you in the race, but if you know that we are both racing to make our world better, you will feel good knowing that we are racing toward a common goal, a mutual reward.
In a competition of love we'll all share in the victory, no matter who comes first.
“Also I wanted to be able to love
And we all know how that one goes, don't we?
Slowly”
Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1
“It isn't that we do what we want. It's that we're allowed to want at all.”
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
King appealing for calm during the Los Angeles riots (May 1, 1992)
“We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do.”
Message on mimeographed copies of lyrics distributed to fans in the 1930s, as quoted by Pete Seeger in an NPR interview "Pete Seeger remembers Woody" (1996)
Context: This song is Copyrighted in U. S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ours, cause we don't give a darn. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do.