What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another region.

We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.

If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.

Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that language. So we're talking about the Bible itself being a translation of a translation of a translation. And, in reality, it has affected people's lives in history.

For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison, I will keep on writing in the language which made you put me in prison."

What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.

There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.