I wrote about my life just as I remembered it. I named names and it's very detailed. Hundreds of Sudanese refugees and people from Africa say that my journey is very similar to theirs.

The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth...she is the only flower on earth...that grows unwatered.

Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.

I appear topless as a way of holding on to my Nilotic culture, and I also do it to taunt those Africans who are ashamed of our original cultural beliefs.

While I love Mohammed and Jesus Christ'I reject all men's religions, not just Islam, but Christianity, Judaism and whatever else the men use for a whip.

I believe that Christianity trains black people, especially black women, to think like slaves, and I believe that Islam is mainly fueled by its hatred for women.

In 2004, I went to Israel and gave a speech that resulted in guns and ammunition being given to the South Sudanese rebels, specifically Commanders Athol's and Yaka's armies.

By any means necessary, I am for Africa.

In 1998, I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist.

My sons are very protective and loving towards me, but I don't know what's in their secret minds about me.

I warn black Americans'don't get too mixed. A little is fine, but not to the point where you're out of the family.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.

The more I love the person, the more rejection I recieved.

No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.

Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

If you have the power to create it, you also have the power to transform it.

I like the not knowing of what the next job is.

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

What we consider to be different depends on what we consider to be the norm.