Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.

I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author.

We only have the past that we have. Not all of our deeds were incorrect.

It’s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we’re of any real use.

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

Each person searches for the most beautiful jump which will be the final before leaving this world.

Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.