"Gods always behave like the people who created them."

"It is the curse of the black race to be forever looking backward, forever remembering."

"The white man is as much a victim of his own system as the black man."

"I have been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots."

"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."