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.

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.

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.

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!

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

A leader’s attitude tells how often he will be the winner

Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.

What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him $2 an hour if the fact that he must be paid that amount is what keeps him from getting a job?

It was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back

I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don't necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.

It's love. It's two men - two strong, very virile men - finding that space in life where they can let go enough of their masculinity to feel the passion of love and respect and trust.

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

The politics is far harder than the science. And even if we accept the science we have a big issue of how to deal with it.

An ordinary chair is always more comfortable than the king's chair!

We have focused only on the negatives, and not enough on incredible stories of the human spirit and of rebirth and rebuilding. That's equally important as the tragedy.