Simone Schwarz-Bart

Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin.

Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.

There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

It's an ear job, not an eye job.