Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me

Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that will not stock a book by a Negro writer, not even as a gift? There are towns where Negro newspapers and magazines cannot be sold except surreptitiously. There are American magazines that have never published anything by Negroes. There are film studios that have never hired a Negro writer. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.

I don't dare start thinking in the morning. I don't dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head-- So I don't dare start thinking in the morning.

There is no color line in art.

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

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.