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

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.

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.

Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.