"I try to point out to them there's less chance of your becoming just illustrative when you become involved with the p…"

"…My early beginnings, as most Negroes in the United States, has been the Negro experience. This is all I knew at one …"

"When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it."

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."

"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-la…"

"Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her…"

"The hunter catches a dreadful prey, the seaman steers his ship into an unspeakable harbor, the plowman sows and reaps…"

"You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. I claim that privilege …"

"When Hector heard that challenge he rejoiced and right in the no man's land along his lines he strode, gripping his s…"

"All the thought which in the course of my studies I have been able to give to the subject has led me to conclude that…"