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.

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

Africa has no future.

A cat only has itself.

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.