Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts.

You cannot develop people. You must allow people to develop themselves.

Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it.

Decisions made in Washington are more important to us than those made here in Dar es-Salaam. So, maybe my people should be allowed to vote in American presidential elections.

If real development is to take place, the people have to be involved.

Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts.

There is no time to waste. We must either unite now or perish.

If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open. In neither case should the door be blown up at the expense of those inside.

No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people.

Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.

In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.

Hard work will never kill you

He turned the corner and flipped me off at the same time. See? Men could multitask. I was so proud of him.

Love does not envy, does not boast, does not delight in evil but rejoice in truth.

Calling people

Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

Love thine enemies for the strengths they call up in us make them the instruments of our destiny.

The message we have internalized is clear - we are what we do and what we own, not what we are inside ourselves. Where it counts!

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

I love the smell of freshly cut grass. It takes me back to summers in Maine.