We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

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?

Take that your accidental self and build it into your ideal self.

In My Case, It Did Not All Start With A Mouse, Instead It Started With A House.

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.

Beautiful is a person whose outside and inside world are in great concord, camaraderie and joint concert.

When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.

when the boogie man goes to sleep he checks his closet for me

Potentiality knocks on the door of my heart. [On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning ]

Don’t start on that. When I offered you her gifts, you told me to shove them straight up my back orifice. (Eros)

You read best what you read most.