The stranger is an element of the group itself, not unlike the poor and sundry 'inner enemies'—an element whose membership within the group involves both being outside it and confronting it.

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."

I don’t think of myself as a writer who happens to be black. I think of myself as a black writer.

写作是重新获得自己身份的一种方式。

没有什么比一项未完成的任务永远悬在那里更令人疲惫的了。