You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa

From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.

Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.