Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of slavery.

I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.

Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.

Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else

The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.

The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent

All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world are Africans and belong to the African nation.

We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

Our moral economy went bankrupt long before our financial one.

Hope is a fire more ravenous than the flames of temptation.  For if only a portion of it poisons your veins, it is enough to make you stand against ridiculous odds again and again and again.

He who steals a belt buckle pays with his life

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted when you find it taken for granted you are unnerved.

I would love to make some kind of film about the witches and the Inquisitions. That would be really fun because I don't think their stories have been told enough.

Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.

The big belly can accommodate all kinds of things. The benevolence is never let a dust behind.

A caring heart that listens is often more valued than an intelligent mind that talks.

The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out her rival's eyes was too hard for the digestion of the Cry.