Children are very fair minded, they really are.

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.