Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.

Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.

Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.

To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.

When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.

I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.