If you dont tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.
The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.
And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?
Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.
to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am.
I think some industries are so far behind the rest of humanity, in the way they see characters and cast shows. Once those walls get broken down, it changes everything.
The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience.
It is my view that it is a big embarrassment for Africa. It is hypocritical for African leaders to talk about democracy and human rights and to be silent when these things are happening in Zimbabwe.