Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.

If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.

Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.

Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice-- sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.