Besides God, there is no glory above coming from humble beginnings, from sleeping under a porous grass thatched mud hut to rising above and beyond tabernacles of greatness

A Motswana in Zambia or Zimbabwe was referred to as gwerekwere and so was a Zimbabwean or Zambian in Botswana. Post-colonialism tragedy.

As it was, being a Zimbabwean immigrant was the worst thing a person could be in Southern Africa. They were the new Hebrews – homeless.

We are relatives at the village and yet we become strangers in the city

I am the Mud Hut I Grew Upon

Don't blame me. That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.

Life is a tragedy of nutrition

Poetry listens to me when I am silent and understands me when no one else seems to be able to.

The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

Intuition is a walkie-talkie between the personality an the soul.

Fish are not the best authority on water.

Its the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease

When I was on acid, I would see things like beams of light and I would hear sounds that sounded an awful lot like car horns.

Begin with the possible: begin with one step. There is always a limit you cannot do more than you can do. If you try to do too much you will do nothing

Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it.