I'm more trying to connect; I'm more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.

If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.

Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!

There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.

Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.

We can appreciate each other's languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.

What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another region.

A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.

For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison, I will keep on writing in the language which made you put me in prison."

What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.

Human existence is as a result of the product of time

The infinitely little have pride infinitely great.

Messi is on another planet.

We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.

I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like the impulse for wanting a dog.

You only have one thing in business, and that is your reputation

I don't really plan what comes out of my mouth, and that's what makes most of my lyrics entertaining.

I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop... everything! But it all blends together nicely. It's like a magical music rainbow.

Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there.

Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history.