[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.

There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.

You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted.

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.