Employment is my right my destiny.

You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.

The impossible is the least that one can demand.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.