I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.

I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know the spiritual wasteland to which that road leads . . . whoever debases others is debasing himself.

Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the tambourine, and gave the cue to the piano player-I never got to know him: a long dark, evil-looking brother, with hands made for strangling; and with these hands he attacked the keyboard like he was beating the brains out of someone he remembered. No doubt the congregation had their memories, too, and they went to pieces. The church began to rock.

No man is a devil in his own mind.