Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.

Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

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.

Money and art are far apart.

Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.

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