“He leaned into Le Voirs face with the calliper and breathed on him, holding forth on this new science of which calibration was the test; these measurements would describe classes of being and we wh...”

“Ours was the age of enlightenment, he said, when the battle cry was, We must know, we shall know!, and reason would depose superstition and we be liberated by it.”

“There is no what if. Only in stories.”

“I do not like to think too much on this Africa. It is too large and too empty, he said. People like De Buys, they astonish me with their courage or perhaps it is a lack in them; they cannot imagin...”

“He leaned into Le Voir’s face with the calliper and breathed on him, holding forth on this new science of which calibration was the test; these measurements would describe classes of being and we w...”

“There is no ‘what if’. Only in stories.”

“No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of...”

“Racial prejudice has always been a difficult topic for me. On several occasions I've withdrawn from conversations that devolved into white bashing. I can never make a general negative statements ba...”

“My story has more than a "great white hope" plot. I loved and respected Tom because he was a servant of God who happened to be white, just as I feel I am a servant of God who happens to be black an...”

“The idea of marrying Lukan made her skin crawl. He was a Chenayan. She, a Norin. He was her conqueror. She, his conquered. He had been born and raised to lord over her. She had been born and raised...”

“In this becalmed zone the sea has a smooth surface, the palm-tree stirs gently in the breeze, the waves lap against the pebbles and raw materials are ceaselessly transported, justifying the presenc...”

“In the heat of the battle, all internal barriers break down; the puppet bourgeoisie of businessmen and shopkeepers, the urban proletariat, which is always in a privileged position, the lumpen-prole...”