“My lover's gone offto some foreign country,sopping wet at our doorwayI watch the clouds rupture.Mira says, nothing can harm him.This passion has yetto be slaked.”

“Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood.”

“Our people think: I , Wangari, a Kenyan by birth - how can I be a vagrant in my own country as if I were a foreigner.”

“When we can no longer kiss our lover with passion, we are admitting - in a blaring silence - it is over.”

“I'd Begin to imagine my life in a foreign country, some faraway land where, if things went wrong, i could always blame somebody else, saying I'd never wanted to live there in the first place.”

“This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane.”