Paul Laurence Quotations

With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.

With it all, I cannot help being overwhelmed by self-doubts. I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.

When you play a team like St. X, you have to play your best, ... St. X is just a great team, so if we can just even keep up with them, we're pretty pleased. It means we're doing OK.

I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, when his wing is bruised and his bosom sore; when he beats his bars and he would be free, it is not a carol of joy or glee, but a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.

I didn't start as a dialect poet, ... talked again and again about poetry.

But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.