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[I]t had been from the first her great mistake—to meet him, to marry him, to love him as she so bitterly had. Looking at his face, it sometimes came to her that all women had been cursed from the cradle; all, in one fashion or another, being given the same cruel destiny, born to suffer the weight of men.
[W]hat frightened him, and kept him more than ever on his knees, was the knowledge that, once having fallen, nothing would be easier than to fall again. Having possessed Esther, the carnal man awoke, seeing the possibility of conquest everywhere.
A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.
An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man from Africa.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Nobody Knows My Name (1961) ‘Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem’

Around the age of 5, 6, or 7. . . . It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians and, although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.

The New Yale Book of Quotations
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models.

Nobody Knows My Name (1961) ‘Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem’

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