People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Good leaders, competent leaders must see it as primary task to create friendliness. This something within the scope of most people. Now artists, like writers and sort of course have an added option of using their scale and talent with this in view. It is their business to create an environment in which our people will prosper and be happy.

What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was to challenge stereotypes, myths, and the image of ourselves and our continent, and to recast them through stories- prose, poetry, essays, and books for our children. That was my overall goal.

A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

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

Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.