National liberation is necessarily an act of culture

Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.

We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.

We must walk rapidly but not run. We must not be opportunists, nor allow our enthusiasms to make us lose the vision of concrete reality.

No matter how hot the water from your well, it will not cook your rice.

One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate the cultural strength of African peoples.

Tell no lies' claim no easy victories

We are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults at it.

Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.

Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories...

It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.

In this instant of danger they realized they were each other's reason for living, and into this instant they threw their whole being.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism.

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else

I'm living in the moment. I just try to move each of the stories, scripts and projects that I work on forward. And when they're ready and the people are ready to make them, we'll do that.

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning.