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" In Africa, those who have money - businessmen and banks - do not believe in film. "

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" I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

" Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter. "

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

" The blatant aggressiveness of theocracies I find distressing, because I grew up when Christians, Muslim and animists lived peacefully together. "

" Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space. "

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

" A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts. "

" Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate. "

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

" I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper. "

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

" There's no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Naturally, we stress it, break it up, reassemble it to suit our own needs. But it is there - a source of vital strength. "

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" 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. "

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" You always assume for some strange reason that you need three meals a day. "

" One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer. "

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" There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter? "