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.

Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!

Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first -- before it boomerangs.