"In big John Henry, as his hammer beats / The monster shovel that quakes the mountainside." Rendezvous with America, p. 6

"When great dogs fight, the small dog gets a bone." When Great Dogs Fight, p. 17

"Our fatherland is the earth, / Our race is humanity." Esperanto, p. 31

"I am what I am not." E.&O.E., p. 135

"You are / Black Lazarus risen from the White Man's grave." Libretto for the Republic of Liberia, p. 160

"God save the black / man's soul but not his buttocks from / the white man's lash." Libretto for the Republic of Liberia, p. 167

"America is my mother, / Liberia is my wife, / And Africa my brother." Libretto for the Republic of Liberia, p. 169

"The Regents of the Harlem Gallery / suffer the carbon monoxide of ignorance." Harlem Gallery, p. 230

"The lie of the artist is the only lie / for which a mortal or god should die." Harlem Gallery, p...