"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…"

"You can't live in this country and be a black man and not be angry."

"The future of the country is in the hands of the young people, and they know it."

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

"The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers."