Being an African man he ought to have known that nothing happened on the continent of Africa without all Africans getting to know of it. - Bessie Emery Head

If you said no, no, no, and kept your claws in a people's heart, what else did you want but that they should all die?

A woman is a maker of pottery, feeling life with her hands, keeping it whole, moulding it from the depths upwards. Her vision is constant, unchanging. [Where is the Hour of the Beautiful Dancing of Birds in the Sun-wind?,

“they cannot exist unless they can live in the village insuch a way that the changes that they bring about are necessary … in determining who they are