I was born a poor black child.
I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
More grievous than tears is the sight of them.
Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes. . . Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an explosion into unknown areas.
The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?
I am happy to accept that badge of ambivalence if that means some progress in dismantling this false opposition: writers boldly using their privileges of free speech in the morally superior West versus pathetic wimps in repressive countries we don't like.
The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.