It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it water, and make it survive. That's what makes the difference

You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself.

You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.

No matter who or where we are, or what our capabilities, we are called to do the best we can.

I’m very conscious of the fact that you can’t do it alone. It’s teamwork. When you do it alone you run the risk that when you are no longer there nobody else will do it.

Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is what I have always tried to do.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

Wow, someone woke up on the wrong side of the Midol.

And you've got a boy right there who looks at you like he would drink your bathwater if you'd ask him!

In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

now I am capable of youth, but not capable of few years - that is the pitiful thing.

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.

After all, a bank without assets is hardly a bank at all.

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.

The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.