I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

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

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

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.

The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself