"“The whole village was involved. There was no longer buzz, buzz, buzz. Something they liked as Africans to pretend th…"

"“Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.”"

"Bessie Head: I found her novels very, very gripping, fascinating, challenging, really intellectually intriguing."

"“It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basicall…"

"“A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.”"

"“And if the white man thought that Asians were a low, filthy nation, Asians could still smile with relief – at least,…"

"I think there's something very special about women writers, black women writers in America and those that I know of i…"

"I asked Bessie Head why a writer of such renown as she chose to remain in an isolated village, with no telephone, few…"

"“I once sat down on a bench at Cape Town railway station where the notice "Whites Only" was obscured. A few moments l…"

"“…This seemed to Makhaya the greatest irony of Christianity. It meant that a white man could forever go on slaughteri…"