"South Africa has witnessed the replacement of racial apartheid for what can be accurately described as 'class apartheid.'"

"We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites."

"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed."

"Conrad Aiken, The Art of Poetry No. 9", interview by Robert Hunter Wilbur, in The Paris Review"

"Artists and actors of color have to alter and water ourselves down for Hollywood, but I refuse to be pacified."