As people get older, they get married, have kids. I'm not married. I don't have kids, so I'm able to focus 100 percent on this.

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.

To be too busie gets contempt.

It's fun to just skim through piles of books in the stacks of a library.

I'm pretty much game for anything.

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.

They are the chosen ones who have surrendered ... Once they were particles of light now they are the radiant sun!

If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.