African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.

You cannot develop people. You must allow people to develop themselves.

Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it.

Decisions made in Washington are more important to us than those made here in Dar es-Salaam. So, maybe my people should be allowed to vote in American presidential elections.

If real development is to take place, the people have to be involved.

Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts.

There is no time to waste. We must either unite now or perish.

If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open. In neither case should the door be blown up at the expense of those inside.

No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people.

Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.

In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.

Love is giving without desiring, it's giving without requiring, but know that it will be returned. Maybe not as expected, but as needed

For this wire is as a part of our body, as a vein torn from us, glowing with our blood. Are we proud of this thread of metal, or of our hands which made it, or is there a line to divide these two?

It was about the way a moment, a single moment, could change things and make you decide to try to be someone different.

The paradox of writing is that you’re trying to use words to express what words can’t express.

I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible.

One thing is a fairly simple and straightforward thing. I don't long to direct. I really want to get some good parts.

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

If you love a person, you love him in his stark reality, and refuse to shut your eyes to his defects and errors.

A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.