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

Don't come giving me, who's old enough to die and too near blind to create anything any more anyhow, a great big banquet that you eat up in honor of your own stomachs as much as in honor of me- who's toothless and can't eat.

Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.

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.

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.

Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.