Scotland is a great country and many wonderful things have come out of this country, however England gets the glory.
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.
Writing has. . . been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man
To live is to war with trolls.
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing
Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.
I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain ambitions that I should not entertain. That was a problem for me because I had never thought of myself as an African woman, never thought of myself as a woman to begin with. For me the limit was my capacity, my capability.
I prefer to believe that people are good and honest and respect me enough to tell me the truth. It's not easy to find those people all the time, but they're out there.