“So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.”
“Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!”
“My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.”
“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.”
"For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.”
“If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.”
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