"The job of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible."

"There is no place you can go and be safe, because there is no place that you can go and be free."

"I don't belong to anybody. I don't belong to any group. I belong to myself."

"White people have a very, very serious problem, and they should start thinking about what they are doing and why they are doing it."

"I have to be in a country where I can be a writer."