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

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

in writing, sex doesn't matter; it's the writing that matters.

Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.