Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with... - Langston Hughes

"An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose."

"Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-"

"I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers."

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."

"Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it."