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" Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth. "

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" Probably to me the greatest singer, female voice, is Billie Holiday. And one of the most moving for me, I don't know why - maybe it's nostalgia, maybe because my life is one of constant partying, whatever. "

" The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular, have been playing for time in order to conclude its mission of ethnic cleansing in the Sudan. "

" Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people. "

" The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny. "

" There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can be written by anybody, including dictators. "

" I don't have the sort of temperament that submits to Christianity or Islam. "

" If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called shoestring film makers - I think we would see quite an explosion of African films on the world scene. "

" African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance. "

" All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour. "

" The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns. "

" The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. "

" For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity. "

" Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake. "

" I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago. "

" In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for the individual. "

" I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present. "

" Some African leaders actually dare to suggest that democracy is a concept alien to traditional African society. This is one of the most impudent political blasphemies I can think of. "

" We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where. "

" I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine. "

" Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus, it must be safeguarded. "

" I've done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time. "

" And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms. "

" My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience. I never know who's influencing me at any time. "

" There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience. "

" The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices. "

" Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent. "

" I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence. "

" The Nation of Islam provides an antidote in the United States to fundamentalist Islam - which is why individuals from America have to go abroad to find radical teachings. "