Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.
Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities
Art should be on the side of humanity.
I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.
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.