In Africa you have space...there a profound sense of space here, space and sky

Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of times.

Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you.

We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines.

As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent.

When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

Does HIV cause AIDS? Can a virus cause a syndrome? How? It can't, because a syndrome is a group of diseases resulting from acquired immune deficiency.

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable

None dare challenge me when i say i am an Afrikan.

The problem is not a lack of understanding of what we are saying and doing; the problem is difference of opinion about what to do.

I had tasted power and I had used it up, but now I would get more of another kind. We would share it, and keep each other from the dark.

Turn your fear around. The other side of it is strength.

Create content to add value, not to get likes.

I am not a Virginian but an American.

Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.

Every author knows what a stimulus it is to have an understanding publisher.

I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.

Sometimes you don't realize how special something is until you lose it. Thats how I feel about Ramadan every year.

I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.

Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.