I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.

A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

I did not think of writing as a career and I don't think that I did this ever really, but I think of writing as something that I could do, I should do alongside whatever else I was doing. It simply grew on me.

An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb