I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.
I have a rendezvous with life.
The truth is. . . everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.
If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.
We shall not always plant while others reap
The key to all strange things is in thy heart. . . . My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
I believe in Spiritualism; I advocate free love in the highest, purest sense, as the only cure for the damnation by which men corrupt God's most holy institution of sexual relations.
The very important thing you should have is patience.
If you don't have a flag sticking out of your ass, you must be a communist.