Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.
When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
A dream deferred is a dream denied.
Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.