Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought a book by a Negro writer?

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

A dream deferred is a dream denied.

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 aren?t it doesn?t matter.

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

Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.