I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first -- before it boomerangs.

To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.

Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone, must begin to realize that they have to be more than passively good-hearted, more than church goingly Christian, and much more than word-of-mouth in the liberalism.

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.