My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.
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The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.
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