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

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

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.

Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.

Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.

Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.