People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.

Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.

Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

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.