If a lion can growl, why shouldn’t a man cry?

There is a pleasure a bee takes in collecting nectar and piling it into a hive. It knows well that the chores involved in such a task will yield sweet results.

Then I saw his kind eyes, a comfort I desired. Then I saw his height, a knight I needed by my side. Then I saw his body, a man I surrendered to.

To eat Ugali is an art of adventure in itself. Forget cutlery because all you need is your lovely fingers.

I do not condemn either the rich or the poor, but the consequences of these two.

My thick and full lips shall pout their African ancestry until all sorrows are kissed out of me.

The joy of comradeship in this foreign land has been killed by silence and overprotection of personal space. I miss the chaos around me for it makes me realise that I am amidst life and alive.

Everyone these days is concerned so much with privacy and forgets the value of human touch. We still need each other but are scared of how it might sound or appear to the other.

May you grow to be a fearless and proud accepting-self human.

At times we are the worst racist enemies of our black selves.

A foolish mind would not raise an eyebrow when things are done diff erently in a foreign culture. An educated mind would try to understand the meaning of it all.

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said: I am.

But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.

Most of our problems are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions.

I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces.