I don’t care about people. I don’t care about anything, not even the white man. I want to feel what it is like to live in a free country and then may… - Bessie Emery Head

I think that my whole life has been shaped by my South African experience and I would never really fall into the category of a writer who produces light entertainment for people. My whole force and direction comes from having something to say. What we are mainly very bothered about has been the dehumanizing of black people. And if we can resolve these situations-and I work both within the present and the future-if we can resolve our difficulties it is because we want a future which is defined for our children. So then you can't sort of say that you have ended any specific thing or that you have changed the world. You have merely offered your view of a grander world, of a world that's much grander than the one we've had already.

He was a thin little fellow with a hollowed-out chest and comic knobbly knees.

It was in Botswana where, mentally, the normal and the abnormal blended completely in Elizabeth’s mind.”