One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

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.

I'm amazed when I think about students today. They know from day one what they are going to be. We didn't. We just coasted. We just knew that things would work out.

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. So you keep moving, and this is the way I think the world's stories should be told - from many different perspectives.

This is why I find racism impossible, because this is against humanity.

Nobody can teach me who I am.