I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land...

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.

I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.

The civil rights situation is like a pregnancy. It will get worse, I believe, before it gets better. What the usual pregnancy comes to is a decent baby. That is what we all hope will be the end product of this stress. It is customary, at the end of a pregnancy, to have for your pains a decent baby.