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.

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!

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.

We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest

Before being free, it is necessary to be just

I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.

I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.

Copy and paste is a design error.

It is better to invert reality than to copy it.

For me, the stars are the invisible people on the street that people don't really get a chance to know.

Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.

Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land.