Just think of the work you've set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.

I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.

It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest.

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.

We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.