- The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all. [L'Afrique ne se développera pas sans la participation concrète de la femme. La conception que nos pères avaient de la femme doit être enterrée une fois pour toutes.]
- At a moral level, I don't think we have any lesson to learn from Europe.
- I benefited from a synthesis of values - in the house, the compound, the country and Koranic and French schools. We conserved our own culture; we had nightly gatherings with tales. Now I call it my own theater.
- Bread came wrapped in French newspapers. Each time my father unwrapped a baguette, he asked me to read to him.
- In the army we saw those who considered themselves our masters naked, in tears, some cowardly or ignorant. When a white soldier asked me to write a letter for him, it was a revelation - I thought all Europeans knew how to write. The war demystified the colonizer; the veil fell.
- [on modern films, circa 1970] It is really rather stupid. You go to a 90-minute movie and 10 minutes are spent on credits, one-half hour on sex, and then the camera starts searching and searching. It doesn't leave much time for the story.
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