The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

I didn't want to box myself into writing just rock music because you can try to force it into moments that don't want it.

Creativity is a business imperative.

There is no living African writer who has not had to, or will not have to, contend with Achebe's work. We are either resisting him - stylistically, politically, or culturally - or we are writing toward him.

Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin and on through Bessie Smith.