What happens to a dream deferred?

Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.

These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.

But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.

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 dosent frighten me at all.

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas