US "poet, writer, editor".
"He was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance who wrote "The Weary Blues," 1926."
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go."
Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first -- before it boomerangs.
"I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer."
"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you."
"We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives . . . Censorship for us begins at the color line."
