"My education had equipped me to suffer in silence, a form of passive endurance. Even though I know nothing about bein…"

"One could only hope that this country, which had always been poor – not through a lack of resources, but because Port…"

"I thought again about the contradiction Mozambique was. On the one hand there were people like Dona Maria, compassion…"

"It didn’t matter which side you were on. It was an empty, cavernous world in which young boys groped around in the da…"

"On the way we encountered many other people: families on the move, women wearily limping along behind their men, carr…"

"All along the path into the village we encountered rebel militiamen – barefooted, wearing ragged uniforms, carrying r…"

"David had once told me that there was no sky as totally black as the African sky, where the stars hung so low that on…"

"I just hope that it would not go the way of other independent black nations, which had allowed their resources to plu…"

"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…"