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.

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

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.

There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.

One who knows One, knows Everyone

Quit while you’re ahead.All the best gamblers do.

Fun is never gone because life is fun.

In him I saw my furture In him I saw my friend In him I saw my destiny Both my beginning and end

Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.

When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.