"We are all God's children.....Perhaps, we brown people are His stepchildren."

"And yet the less civilised white peasant of Europe is to this extent the coloured man's superior: the blood in him is…"

"Given the opportunity, the descendant of serfs may be a Tchekov. But the child of colour, unless his colour is attenu…"

"There are some who suggest that mixed breeds, unless replenished in a generation or two with the blood of one of the …"

"....the whites are the conquerors and all is theirs. A man's one hope is among the whites.... The thing for the Buys-…"

"In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being: he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act …"

"We suffer from a hubris of the mind. We have abolished superstition of the heart only to install a superstition of th…"

"Men are never alone because that which, acknowledged or unacknowledged, dreams through them is always by their side."

"It is the not-yet in the now, The taste of fruit that does not-yet exist Hanging the blossom on the bough."

"Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril."