Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities

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

A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there was something inside me that wanted me to tell who I was, and that would have come out even if I didn't want it.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

There are people who say that if you are told that your house has fallen you don't ask what about the ceiling or what about the windows. The main thing is that this house, Africa, has fallen. Literature is just one aspect, pick any aspect of the situation.