"One writes out of one thing only: one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one has examined one’s experience."

"It is a terrible thing to see a man that you know to be a man reduced to a thing."

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

"The root of the matter is that the white man has projected onto the Negro that which he despises, fears, and wishes to avoid in himself."

"The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."