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

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.

Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.

Africa has no future.

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.