"White people are not the problem. It is the problem of white people that they think they are the problem."

"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."

"It seems to me that if I am to sustain myself as a writer, I must be given the right to write as I see fit."

"It seems to me that the human race is like a lot of children playing in a nursery, and the grown-ups are not coming."

"It is not the world that is poisoned, but the vision of the people in it."