A desert is a place without expectation.

Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self

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

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

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.

You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.