No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.
I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It’s a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don’t need to rise above it?
No matter what kind of night you’re having, morning always wins.
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery.
But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
Loose lips sink ships.
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
People ask without wanting to know.