“In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.”

“Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewi...”

“An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.”

“Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.”

“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white peopl...”

“I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stress...”

“The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Like I always say, one doesn't k...”

“Nationalist, anti-European, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim public political figures, seem a worrying picture of a possible European f...”

“One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it an...”

“We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda lik...”

“I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the fu...”

“Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.”