"…partly because I’m perceived as black…the idea I could look at my mother and say to her that I’m not black makes no …"

"I probably seem quite at ease now saying I’m mixed race, I’m black, I’m Zambian, but for a while that was quite tortu…"

"…It's a very interesting position to be in as an immigrant to the United States - now a citizen - who grew up in a co…"

"I think there was an impulse in me to write women as central to the text. Part of that is my own limitations as a wri…"

"Old like her father was old, a shaggy shambling old, an old where you'd lost the order of things and felt so sad that…"

"They were not kings. The empire was a frikkin sham. They were colonialists, and for that you only need brute force – …"

"Now, as her baby wept for hunger and as she herself wept distractedly - weeping was just what she did now, who she wa…"

"Ding. The cabin lights came on...The flight attendants paced the aisles like antic tightrope walkers, with fixed smil…"

"Equality!’ he cried. ‘You see? Only from level ground can you grow new crops. The war taught me that all men are equa…"

"The Civil Rights Movement in the US was all about logjams and blockades. Martin Luther King is the one who said “a ri…"