Jacob Quotes

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

What made Nelson Mandela great was precisely what made him human. We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

Even if you apply any kind of lotion and straighten your hair you will never be white.

You bring to a painting your own experience.

You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works.

Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.

People tend to try to find something to talk about Zuma. My surname is very nice and simple. Very simple, so they like pronouncing it all the time. So what's the problem?

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy

Those who vote for the ANC will be blessed on earth and heaven

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.

Something has gone wrong with Ronnie... He wasn't like that before. I don't know what went wrong with him.

A shower would minimise the risk of contracting the disease.

When I joined the ANC, I never thought I would be anything. In no way, did I say, 'One day I could be the president. I think I am good material for the presidency.' Not at all.

I have an assuredness of myself. I never protect myself against it.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

How often when we are comfortable, we begin to long for something new!

Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

Keep God first, chase your dreams, and everything will pay off.

The slum is the measure of civilization.

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.

In arranging the bodies in order of their electrical nature, there is formed an electro-chemical system which, in my opinion, is more fit than any other to give an idea of chemistry.

There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.

Learn to be satisfied. It is just as easy as being dissatisfied-and much more pleasant.

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.

...having a member who serves in the Government and who also belongs to the structures of the party does not retard this particular objective the separation of party and state. It does not.

Love is like death, it must come to us all, but to each his own unique way and time, sometimes it will be avoided, but never can it be cheated, and never will it be forgotten.

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.

Believe in what you can do and be not deterred by what others say.

The best way to preserve a child’s vision is to let them see things their way rather than yours.

We want to eradicate all mud schools. We are already doing so. We are not in a hurry because no one is going to rule but the ANC.

Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work depends mostly on good nutrition.

O be wise, what can I say more?

The most effective way to win people to Jesus is to treat them the way Jesus would day in and day out.

Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad.

Don't lecture someone on their choices when you don't know their story.

Our current political system ensures not that the worst will get on top - though they often do - but that the best will never even apply.

...The people love him. So how can we condemn him?

The Constitution is only there to regulate matters.

There is no cloud above my head - there is not even a mist.

It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft.

Prayer is the key ingredient of the church. The enemy hates it when we pray.

Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.

African problems should have African solutions.

History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.