I'm amazed when I think about students today. They know from day one what they are going to be. We didn't. We just coasted. We just knew that things would work out.

A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.

When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.

This is why I find racism impossible, because this is against humanity.

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like.