一些我印象深刻的句子：
The thin, black hair was violent with oil (稀薄的黑发暴力地油腻）
He was laughing, showing all his teeth – there were not very many (他笑着，露出他全部的牙齿 – 全部仅存的那几个）
With everything in me screaming No! yet the sum of me sighed Yes (虽然我的一切都在高喊：不要！可我的全部却在轻叹：来吧。）
It would help if I were able to feel guilty. But the end of innocence will is also the end of guilt. (假如我觉得内疚也许会好一些。但是失去天真也意味着不再愧疚）
下面是Langston Hughes的书评，精彩而贴切：
He is thought-provoking, tantalizing, irritating, abusing and amusing. And he uses words as the sea uses waves, to flow and beat, advance and retreat, rise and take a bow in disappearing … the thought becomes poetry and the poetry illuminates the thought.