I Cut My Teeth As The Black

I Have A Rendezvous With Life.

[w]e Have Always Resented The Natural Inclination Of Most White People To Demand Spirituals The Moment It Is Known That A Negro Is About To Sing. So Often The Request Has Seemed To Savor Of The Feeling That We Could Do This And This Alone.

There Is No Secret To Success Except Hard Work And Getting Something Indefinable Which We Call 'the Breaks.

Dame Poverty Gave Me My Name, And Pain Godfathered Me.

Lord, I Fashion Dark Gods, Too, Daring Even To Give You Dark Despairing Features