To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.

Think twice before pointing a finger to any one as other three fingers are always pointing towards you.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

The reason that the large proportion of female-headed families in the black community is a problem is not because they're headed by women, but because these fa…

In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest-usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation-and in a family of peasants, wh…