I do feel it's crucial that women's opinions be taken equally with men's. But still'I have not been accepted by the American white feminist writers and activists, and frankly I don't care to be, so I am a womanist. I am feisty and I am given to womanish behavior.

As for developing a writing style'I would say that I tried to copy the pacing of the old movies I loved as a kid.

Africans believed that the woman's bare breast represented God, the circle of life and the moral cleanliness of human beings.

In 1998, I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist.

Because I was in psychiatric treatment for most of my childhood and had to learn English and had to adjust to a white-dominated society, I truly know what being Sudanese refugees [adopting by white family] mean. It's not something that you can explain in the confines of an interview, but there is an immediate comfort, a connection between black phenotypes that is natural.

I'm not a 'strong warrior queen' like people think. I spend most of my day cooking and doing things with my sons.

I met rich men and they became my boyfriends. When I was a kept woman'it was a relationship.