Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside..

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book..

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go..

I do not believe that hating any man solves the problem of race or any other problem. ... I firmly believe that hatred, like anger, works on the phys….

... I see the country going fascist. We have been going that route a long, long time. A lot of things the country has done from its inception were fa….

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me..

You is born lucky, and it's better to be born lucky than born rich, cause if you is lucky you can git rich, but if you is born rich and you ain't luc….

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom..

Snow-white moslem head-dress around a dead black face! Beautiful were your sand-papering words against our skins!.

A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind; a quiet place; and a private life..

Only ways you can keep folks hating is to keep them apart and separated from each other..

Old Molly Means was a hag and a witch; Chile of the devil, the dark, and sitch..

I have always secretly felt that what mankind should be in an ideal sense is that mixture of people and races. I really believe in it. I don't think ….

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age..

All you violated ones with gentle hearts; You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak.

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories..

When and where will another come to take your holy place? Old man mumbling in his dotage, or crying child, unborn?.

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the ….

White folks needs what black folks got just as much as black folks needs what white folks got, and we's all got to stay here mongst each other and gi….

I believe deeply in a common humanity. The black man belongs to the family of man. One part of that family is out of control - like a virus or cancer….

My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean wor….