The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

Each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other - male in female, female in male, white in black, and black in white. We are part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.

Writing is a political instrument.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.