7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love.

But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.

Life dosent frighten me at all.

These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.

I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend.

Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought a book by a Negro writer?

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.