Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.

What made Nelson Mandela great was precisely what made him human. We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.

Even if you apply any kind of lotion and straighten your hair you will never be white.

You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works.

People tend to try to find something to talk about Zuma. My surname is very nice and simple. Very simple, so they like pronouncing it all the time. So what's the problem?

The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy

Those who vote for the ANC will be blessed on earth and heaven

Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.

Something has gone wrong with Ronnie... He wasn't like that before. I don't know what went wrong with him.

A shower would minimise the risk of contracting the disease.

When I joined the ANC, I never thought I would be anything. In no way, did I say, 'One day I could be the president. I think I am good material for the presidency.' Not at all.

You have received a mandate not given by man, but given and empowered by God, to bring justice to the people and godliness on the earth.

pain is pondering about past and wishing to relive those moments even after knowing it's impossible.

When did most of us stop being poets?

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?

Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.

Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.

It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, 'Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

Never speak ill of an absent friend.

I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films.