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

"My soul is too deep for tears."

"No matter what the race of people, they are always a little better than any other race."

"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."

"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."