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

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.

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

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

September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.

About the joys and the courage, I really don't know what other people think. I just know that I've never left Africa. I've lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.

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