I Am Always Quiet So That I

I Lay In My Bed Night After Night Staring At The Ceiling And Thinking, Why Have I Survived The War? Why Was I The Last Person In My Immediate Family To Be Alive? I Didn’t Know.

We Must Strive To Be Like The Moon

I Believe That There Is A God, And Coming From An African Tradition, I Believe Also That There Are Gods.

My Childhood Had Gone By Without My Knowing, And It Seemed As If My Heart Had Frozen.

The Places I Come From Have Such Rich Languages, Such A Variety Of Expression. In Sierra Leone We Have About Fifteen Languages And Three Dialects. I Grew Up Speaking About Seven Of Them.