I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.

The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.

I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.

[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to sing. So often the request has seemed to savor of the feeling that we could do this and this alone.

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!

I have a rendezvous with life.