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.

Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.

Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.

Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer after I have held my pain So long? Because my mouth Is wide with laughter You do not hear My inner cry? Because my feet Are gay with dancing You do not know I die?

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

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

How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water To be so still that way. ~ "Sea Calm