Controversial Sayings

I grieve to say that I know of no country where the practice of dentistry is so atrocious as in England.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

The web is not a privilege, it is a right.

Numbers rule the universe.

All I am is literature, and I am not able to be anything else.

I have not lost my faith. I have lost my church.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

The object of power is power.

The African is lazy, crafty, negligent, and governed by caprice.

Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.

The heart is the beginning of life; the sun of the microcosm.

Most human beings are dead, in fact, though they may not know it.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.

I do not know what I have done to deserve such persecution.

I have seen the future and it is wireless.

That's the whole burden of this novel—the loss of certainties.

He who awaits much can expect little.

Vitamin C is the most important of all vitamins.

Don't talk to me about justice. I'm a man of letters, not a judge.

I'm not a feminist. I'm a Black woman.