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

Communists are the last optimists.

Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.

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

When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us. If something happens where I live, you see it tomorrow or perhaps even at the same time it is happening there. It's not "one world" in the sense that conflicts are resolved in the world. But we are more one world in that we know what is going on and are psychologically influenced by what goes on around us.