I'd spent seven years in an all-boys school: 2,000 adolescents in the same khaki uniforms striking hunting poses, stalking lunchrooms, classrooms, changing rooms, looking for boys who didn't fit in.

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.

In 1976, Rastafarians were one of the most violated, persecuted groups in Jamaica. They could be beaten within an inch of their lives, or detained for two years, just for being found in a 'proper' neighbourhood.

(We) were supposed to go hunting the morning he got killed. He was a heck of a hunter, a heck of a fisherman.

And I went off to Ghana for what was intended to be seven days. I spent what was well over a year in Africa, teaching and travelling.

You know, if I had a cobra, and I was looking at him to buy him. He's had seven other owners, and he's bitten and killed all seven owners, ... And then he turns around and says 'you can trust me.'