"The writer's duty is to help society regain its self-belief and put away the complexes of the years of denigration and self-abasement."

"It is praiseworthy to be a peacemaker, but it is not enough to be a peacemaker. One must also be a justice-maker."

"The language of the colonizer is not the language of the colonized."

"Storytellers are a threat. They are subversive. They are dangerous. What we call information is not knowledge."

"When we are too much in a hurry, we miss the best things in life."