I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

I don't like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.

My weapon is literature

Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.

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.

Colonial rule means that power, initiative is taken away from you by somebody else who makes your decisions. If that goes on long enough, beyond one generation, then the habit of self-rule is forgotten. People are no longer able to realize what it means. To be dependant for a hundred years! And suddenly when this thing ends there is nobody who actually knows how to set about running the country.

A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing