Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.

I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.

To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

Education enhances the beauty of the mind by learning to see the beauty in every little thing.

Some Memories are better be destroyed.. you never know when do you fall in love with someone, and when you're kicked out.. it's life, crazy enough!

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

I hate when any rapper would just use "Rapper X" because "Rapper X" is hot at the time and put them on the record. That's not how I do my thing. I work with my friends and people I consider fam.

Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.

Equality begins with economic empowerment.

Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta; they go too low.