"I wanted to put presence into absence. I was very frustrated that black British women weren't visible in literature. …"

"I have a term I came up with called fusion fiction – that's what it felt like, with the absence of full stops, the lo…"

"I'm not interested in any stereotypes whatsoever."

"When you're a slave you dream / of either owning slaves or freeing them."

"I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldw…"

"As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections."

"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense."

"The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to…"

"Piety in art—poetry in art—Puseyism in art—let us be careful how we confound them."

"He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not fo…"