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

Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.

For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.