Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.

Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

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.

Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.