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.

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.

At the center of your beingyou have the answer

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

Villa will probably play a lot worse than this and lose.

My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, 'Are these snakes poisonous?' and 'But you look much too young to be a police officer.

Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.

I think of myself as a real writer, not just someone who dabbles in it, so I deserve some credit.

I didn't go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that.

He looks like a man who has nits and worms at the same time.

It's better not to see than to see wrongly.

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.