Hurry up, please, its time.
You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.
Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
Be kind, aim for my heart.
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.
I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.
Death always leaves one singer to mourn.
If you don't root for the Dodgers, you might not get into heaven.
But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long. " That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.