Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed.

I don’t fancy colors of the face, I’m always attracted to colors of the brain.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.

You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.

I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.

It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity.

There was a time in my life when I did a fair bit of work for the tempestuous Lucretia Stewart, then editor of the American Express travel magazine, Departures. Together, we evolved a harmless satire...

To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering a critical...

I’ve devoted my life to see equality for blacks, and at the same time, I’ve denied the needs of my family. Please understand that I take these actions, not out of selfishness or arrogance, but...

There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence, intelligence (now called ‘state security’ in a throwback to both apartheid...

Yet, thousands of africans and young african youths have failed to acknowledge the significant of what madiba gave them. To me, he be called ” the pride in black skin and the freedom we are...

I don’t think that, when future generations look at the apartheid struggle, they will see it as quite the momentous literary cauldron that recent history has suggested. In fact, as well as recording the struggle...

The seasons alter: hoary-headed frostsFall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

Children are being killed, because some “adults” think life is a game.Something is amiss.When children shoot up other children in school, it’s a national tragedy, and a week of mourning.When grown men are killing unarmed...