When the white man came to Africa, the white man had the Bible and the African had the land, but now it is the white man who is being, reluctantly and bloodily, separated from the land, and the African who is still attempting to digest or to vomit up the Bible.

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Such figures as Boy George do not disturb me nearly so much as do those relentlessly hetero (sexual?) keepers of the keys and seals, those who know what the world needs in the way of order and who are ready and willing to supply that order.

You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street.