The play is done, the crowds depart; and see / That twisted tortured thing hung from a tree, / Swart victim of a newer Calvary.

From a killer to victim, what a twisted thing!

If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call the "breaks." In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things -- read and write -- and wait.

I have a rendezvous with life.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.