Africa has no future.

And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

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

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

You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.