I have often noticed that the need for cash and the production of a masterpiece just don't coincide with me. Money will hit me at a big off-period an…

- Bessie Head

The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for some time on the continent…

- Bessie Head

I might really have gone round the bend. I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them from the sky can't be all there but i…

- Bessie Head

I write because I have authority from life to do so.

- Bessie Head

Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.

- Bessie Head

Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.

- Bessie Head

Most people live uncomplicated lives. They have work and quietly rear their children. There is an order and sanity about them that keeps the world go…

- Bessie Head

People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.

- Bessie Head

I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.

- Bessie Head