I don't care about age very much.

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.

I did not think of writing as a career and I don't think that I did this ever really, but I think of writing as something that I could do, I should do alongside whatever else I was doing. It simply grew on me.

Every generation must find its mission and fulfill it, as Fanon said - or betray it. So it is not something that you can write up on the wall, saying this is what has to be done. Every generation has to discover what it needs to do.

Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.