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

If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

I've been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'-- But I don't care! I'm still here!

One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.

Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.

When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.