"Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie." — Wole Soyinka

Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

Politics, I believe, is a full-time occupation.

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.