How can I turn from Africa and live?
The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.
The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .
Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.
We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.
We look and see what we see in a mirror, and we believe it. That's important, the question of belief. The question is: Should we believe what we see in a mirror?