"The very first thing I want to do is to get hold of a white man and get him to tell me how he feels about being white."

"The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell."

"She was a rut in the road. Everybody else rode on, but she was stuck."

"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose."

"I want to be a poet, and a novelist, and a playwright, and an anthropologist."