"It is a terrible thing to see a man that you know to be a man reduced to a thing."

"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."

"The future of the Negro in this country is precisely as bright or as dark as the future of the country."

"You can't be a writer and be in the world and not be political. You can't be a writer and be in the world and not be a human being."

"The power of the white world is in the fact that it is able to make people believe that they are white."