We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

The world is always in movement.

Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.

Africa has no future.