I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.

I had chosen freedom, with all its insecurities, and nothing in the world would make me turn away from it.

That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.

I would have to confess that in the land of the toubabu, I had managed to save only myself.

You are my finest knight

One thing a death will do is make you reflect on how many kinds of love there are to be experienced in the world.

I've spent a life loving women and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.

...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them.

Ask God's blessings on your work but don't ask Him to do it for you.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

Surfing the web often comes at the cost of face-to-face time with friends and family.

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.

Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was that.