We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair

A dream deferred is a dream denied.

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

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