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

Small things start us in new ways of thinking

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

I will say I am the sum of my books.

We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.

But everything of value about me is in my books.