I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.

Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.

I dream a world... where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!

Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.

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.