None dare challenge me when i say i am an Afrikan.

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!

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.

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

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

Writing a book is a herculean task, but the toughest thing is to get convinced with your work, and finally give it a green signal.

Sometimes we don't see out of our peripheral vision what's coming right around the corner.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.

Love is a fragile, useless thing. It decomposes easily in the tropic heat.

We must stop planning, plotting and scheming, and let Infinite Intelligence solve the problem in its own way.

A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

Keeping your artistic self as creative as possible is a balancing act.

The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...

If there's a distinction between men and women, I don't pay attention to it. Honestly, I don't see it. I think all of us are part feminine and part masculine.