All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

I have not written about being a Negro at such length because I do not expect that to be my only subject, but only because it was the gate I had to unlock befo…

I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.

Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it seems to me, is: if you can examine and …

A playwright lives in an occupied country: And if you can't live that way you don't stay.