If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.

Just think of the work you've set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.

Naming is like putting a stamp on something and fixing it. A kind of formaldehyde sort of fixation, but it becomes dead, sitting there forever, frozen. So, I'm not a great one for these modernist, post modernist, post colonial labels. I think they serve certain purpose. You do need some kind of sign post here and there, but it can also become an end in itself.

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

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