Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.

I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.

Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone, must begin to realize that they have to be more than passively good-hearted, more than church goingly Christian, and much more than word-of-mouth in the liberalism.

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

For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

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.