in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Melting pot Harlem? Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall, where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Music)
Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Dream)
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
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When people care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that will not stock a book by a Negro writer, not even as a gift? There are towns where Negro newspapers and magazines cannot be sold except surreptitiously. There are American magazines that have never published anything by Negroes. There are film studios that have never hired a Negro writer. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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I will not take "but" for an answer.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Soul)
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in Human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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O, let America be America again
The land that never has been yet
And yet must be, the land where every man is free.
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I am the American heartbreak? The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
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