How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.
Humans, not places, make memories.
There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.
Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a precious vehicle, is time.
For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.
Tallstar stiffened and his neck fur bristled. 'Windclan was driven from the forest once,' he hissed. 'Never again. Our territory is ours, and we'll fight for it. Is Thunderclan with us?
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.