I just wanted to be an athlete.
Silence is the best answer to a fool.
People get inspired to write, paint, draw, sing, sculpt, dance in many different ways. And there are many types of art. But the one thing that they all have in common is that they are all a sort of magic. Sometimes the magic flows from one’s fingers, other times it is transferred to the person who experiences the result. Magic has always worked in mysterious ways.
Though I knew I shouldn’t have cared, the words still hurt like pinches, and pinches can be very painful when done in the same place many times in a row.
Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.
It's ok to care about what other people think, but you should give a little more weight to what you, yourself, think. . . The habit of thinking is the habit of gaining strength. You're stronger than you believe.
We cried and sobbed and wept and bled tears. But when we were finished, all we could do was continue living.
I have no idea what to do with myself. And while I wait for my epiphany, I feel the toxins collecting in my body.
Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gathering, filtering and distributing news.
. . . nothing, of course, is ever so strange as love to the one who is not a lover.
While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek to find out things about people by making photographs of them.