The Papuans have had no Proust and the Zulus have not yet produced a Tolstoy.

Attributed to Saul Bellow, but he himself denied having said that, as he wrote in the article 'Op-Ed: Papuans and Zulus', NY Times (March 10, 1994): "Nowhere in print, under my name, is there a single reference to Papuans or Zulus."