To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.

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

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?

The more I love, the more I see the magic of love.

One day I wish to die, but today, I wish to live.

Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

I did what all good Iriah dads do when faced with a worthy adversary..I said Ask your mother!!

Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.

If nobody loves you, be sure it is your own fault.

To me, wholeness is the key to aliveness. It is more than just physical vitality, it is radiance, coming from being at one with yourself and your experience. Life then flows through you.

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world