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

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

It is not quite true to say that I am not an advocate of writing in African languages. What I think is, one has to think about what is practicable.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. In one of my essays, I remember the kind of things that fascinated me. Weird things, even, about a wizard who lived in Africa and went to China to find a lamp... Fascinating to me because they were about things remote, and almost ethereal.

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

I couldn't tell you why but now I know a story is in fact where you discover who you are, where a culture discovers what it is and I just think that this is a terribly important place to get into and that I would enjoy it.

If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. So you keep moving, and this is the way I think the world's stories should be told - from many different perspectives.