We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music.

Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks, and the voice of the New Negro is heard.

The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses . . . Each generation . . . will have its creed.

Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.

Love fades, mine has.~Dimitri Belikov~

What is the nature of egoism? It spends away everything in its power!

A society that has no wrongs will soon have no rights.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Art, like dreams, helps our eyes to see what our hearts already know.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.

Not all who own a harp are harpers.