It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who … - James Baldwin

When the white man came to Africa, the white man had the Bible and the African had the land, but now it is the white man who is being, reluctantly and bloodily, separated from the land, and the African who is still attempting to digest or to vomit up the Bible.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.