Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.

Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent.

A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice.

Rwanda, which is one of the younger independent states in Africa, must be regarded as a model of how great human trauma can be transformed to commence true reconstruction of people. Human trauma can lead to stunted growth and mass withdrawal.

I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.