The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

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.

Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on

But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas

Life dosent frighten me at all.