Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair
Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!
Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.
I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.