Writers Themselves Don't Analyze What They Do;

The Creative Act Is Not Pure. History Evidences It. Sociology Extracts It. The Writer Loses Eden, Writes To Be Read And Comes To Realize That He Is Answerable.

Can You Imagine Writers Influencing Things In America? Can You Imagine A Writer In England Influencing? Absolutely Not. And In France? It Used To Be, But No More - Absolutely Not. France Used To, At Least, Have Writers As Diplomats, But Not Any More.

Success Sometimes May Be Defined As A Disaster Put On Hold. Qualified. Has To Be.

If One Will Always Have To Feel White First, And African Second, It Would Be Better Not To Stay On In Africa

Power Is Something Of Which I Am Convinced There Is No Innocence This Side Of The Womb.