I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.

Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.

This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America - this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible.

If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.

Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.