The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can't believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Music has no limits of a life-span.

If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa