Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

When there's a war, people get married.

When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is the chief preoccupation to avoid), his sense of guilt, which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down the whip.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window. I could see myself lying on the pavement. Then I seemed to be standing by the body on the pavement. I was two people. Blood and brains were scattered everywhere. I knelt down and began licking up the blood and brains

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.