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

“Believing everything she readIn the daily news,(No in-between to choose)She thought that onlyOne side won,Not that BOTHMight lose.”

“What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”

“The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.”

“FrostingFreedomIs just frostingOn somebody else'sCake--And so must beTill weLearn how toBake.”

“Of course Covarrubias wasn't a negro, but how he caught the darky spirit!”

“When a man starts out to build a world,He starts first with himself”