Dame Poverty Gave Me My Name, And

[w]e Have Always Resented The Natural Inclination Of Most White People To Demand Spirituals The Moment It Is Known That A Negro Is About To Sing. So Often The Request Has Seemed To Savor Of The Feeling That We Could Do This And This Alone.

Africa? A Book One Thumbs Listlessly, Till Slumber Comes.

If I Am Going To Be A Poet At All, I Am Going To Be Poet And Not Negro Poet.

Quaint, Outlandish Heathen Gods Black Men Fashion Out Of Rods

Dame Poverty Gave Me My Name, And Pain Godfathered Me.