I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

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

The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.