"I do not not own life, you often said when you tried to laugh your difficulties away."

"You have watched God and Devil, gods and Ancestors, wondering whether *they* owned it, this thing called life. As far…"

"And while we’re so busy blaming [the Makwerekwere] for all our sins, hadn’t we better also admit that quite a large p…"

"In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being: he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act …"

"We suffer from a hubris of the mind. We have abolished superstition of the heart only to install a superstition of th…"

"Men are never alone because that which, acknowledged or unacknowledged, dreams through them is always by their side."

"It is the not-yet in the now, The taste of fruit that does not-yet exist Hanging the blossom on the bough."

"Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril."

"There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere…"

"Africa has always walked in my mind proudly upright, an African giant among the other continents, toes well dug into …"