Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.

I will not take "but" for an answer.

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

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.

I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.

Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.