What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.

At some points, hope was the only thing I had. When I began my journey toward walking again, I clung to hope like a life raft.

I haven't had a chance to decorate my dressing room yet, but I have these pictures of myself as a kid that I want to put up because I said, 'I really want to make sure that I take that kid with me on this journey.' I want him to experience this.

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.