Uncle Willy's Chocolate Factory ... with lots of help from really good assistants.

One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.