“The formation of a diaspora could be articulated as the quintessential journey into becoming; a process marked by incessant regoupings, recreations, and reiteration. Together these stressed actions strive to open up new spaces of discursive and performative postcolonial consciousness.”
“A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.”
“Every journey begins with the first step of articulating the intention, and then becoming the intention.”
“It was, to reiterate, to stress, to accentuate the point, to leave no doubt, hot.”
“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.”
“The novel is an event in consciousness. Our aim isn't to copy actuality, but to modify and recreate our sense of it. The novelist is inviting the reader to watch a performance in his own brain.”