We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.
The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.
