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

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.

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.

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...

Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

It's not Lyndon Johnson who makes the black freedom movement; it's the black freedom movement who makes Lyndon Johnson.

As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.

False hope is nicer than no hope at all.

Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than just dropping a billboard into a video game.

My love life doesn't stink; it's nonexistent.

The religions never wanted an art where you paint only what you see.

Twitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.'

Jesus resolved the false opposition between obedience and freedom and opened the path to freedom

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.