LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.

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

The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

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

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.