I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.

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.

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.

Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.

Little Tamar, forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start.

Better Counsel comes overnight.

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.