Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.

Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.

It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want to be white," hidden in the aspirations of his people, to "Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!"

Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

Money and art are far apart.