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.

Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.

Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.

Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

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

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.