My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.
A writer's job is to tell the truth.
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a...
I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel read 2 000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.
