Being listed by Facebook was like being recognized by a global economic superpower. It has enormous impact.

What inflicts the mind, inflicts the body. What inflicts the soul inflicts the body. Physical wounds heal much quicker but spiritual, emotional and spiritual wounds takes much longer of healing.

Sometimes the best things for us aren't necessarily the things we want.

A cloud of white death veiled in black…

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.

I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.

There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money

I'm so proud to be Canadian. I've been to 58 countries, and they're wonderful countries, but Canada is the best.

It is so difficult to make a neat job of killing people with whom one is not on friendly terms.