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.

Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.

Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.

I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

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.

Let the rain sing you a lullaby.