"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that c…"

"I am not a pessimist. I am a witness."

"The whole language of love, in this country, is terribly debased."

"I don't know what most white people in this country feel. I can only speak for myself, and I can say that I have loved very few white people in my life."

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