I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.

I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.