“Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.”

“We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.”

“I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.”

“Each body has its art...”

“Writing is a delicious agony.”

“Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.And be it gash or gold it will not comeAgain in this identical disguise.”

“When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.”