I have a rendezvous with life.

For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.

The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse.

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

The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.

Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.