You write in order to change the world.

It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life -- without becoming, at very best, a dangerously disoriented human being.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform

I think that the inability to love is the central problem, because that inability masks a certain terror, and that terror is the terror of being touched. And if you can't be touched, you can't be changed. And if you can't be changed, you can't be alive.

Writing is a political instrument.

No man is a devil in his own mind.