My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
One isnโt born oneโs self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other peopleโs ideas โ and you have to work through it all.