Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

When the white man came to Africa, the white man had the Bible and the African had the land, but now it is the white man who is being, reluctantly and bloodily, separated from the land, and the African who is still attempting to digest or to vomit up the Bible.

Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head

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

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people really seem to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free.

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art

If the word 'integration' means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.