One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!

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

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn't. They can rarely afford to be scrupulous about the means they will use. They will use such means as come to hand. Neither, in the main, will they distinguish one oppressor from another, nor see through to the root principle of their oppression.