"Bernardine Evaristo"

My host joked that the guns would encourage the Europanes to start more wars which would result in more prisoners offered up as slaves.

Truth is, both of us was desperate to be anything other than what we was.

I take your riding crop, fold it, lash your chest. ‘Take that!’ I hiss. ‘How dare you humour me. Who’s the boss now?

Ageing is nothing to be ashamed of especially when the entire human race is in it together.

I am writing myself into the world.

If we don’t write ourselves into history, we will be written out of it.