Conrad went off some evenings for Spanish lessons and sometimes came back with the girl who taught him. - Nadine Gordimer

There is more truth in my fiction than in nonfiction. I think, subconsciously, [if] I am writing an article or talking to you, there is a certain amount of self-censorship going on. But in my fiction I am writing as if I were dead. I want to say it all. I want to say everything I know.

The main reason why we're still where we are is blacks haven't united as blacks because we're told all the time to do it is to be racist.

What is shameful cannot be shared. What is shameful, separates.