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.

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.

I don't like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.

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.

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

When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.

A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?