I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

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

Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.

When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.

It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want to be white," hidden in the aspirations of his people, to "Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!"