Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.

Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.

We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.

We must walk rapidly but not run. We must not be opportunists, nor allow our enthusiasms to make us lose the vision of concrete reality.

No matter how hot the water from your well, it will not cook your rice.

One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate the cultural strength of African peoples.

Tell no lies' claim no easy victories

We are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults at it.

National liberation is necessarily an act of culture

Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories...

However let's turn the coin, what if we choose not to broadcast the bad news but choose to broadcast mostly good news? How would this affect our life?

Sometimes, a girl just has to dive under the duvet and regroup.

Battles over water in the West are always about something more. At their most elemental, they are about survival.

In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S. is.

I think everyone should treat one another in a Christian manner. I will not, however, be responsible for the consequences.

Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.

Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.

Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about Life will be your experience of Life.

Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.

That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.