The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly.

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.