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

“How still,How strangely stillThe water is today,It is not goodFor waterTo be so still that way.~ "Sea Calm”

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

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

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

“LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.”

“Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again!”