Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.

I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.

You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.

When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people. May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings. And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.

what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost