I'm writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.

If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.

Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!

There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.

Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.

We can appreciate each other's languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.

I'm more trying to connect; I'm more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.

What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another region.

A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.

For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison, I will keep on writing in the language which made you put me in prison."

In any story where solutions to mysteries are found, there should always be at least one mystery which remains unsolved.

Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.

Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.

Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre.

When we feel that we lack whatever is needed to secure someone else's esteem, we are very close to hating him

There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness.

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

Why must every eleven minutes of my life be filled with misery?

The best way to deal with the deficit is through economic growth.

The way people are being displaced, who can stop the arrival of Maoism?