I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it.

I do not think that there need be the conflict between books and videos, that one would drive out the other. It certainly is possible to watch the screen for some things and for others to sit down and read, because the screen is easier to do, to watch is easier than to read because you don't have to contemplate anything. Someone else has done the work of putting it on the video.

A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well.

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.

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

Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

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