Somewhat paradoxically, the more that Africans and their descendants assimilated cultural materials from colonial society, the less human they became in the minds of the colonists.

Your thought is so important because it has the ability to make or mar you. Your thought will either move you forward or set you backwards.

I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetuated fraud against himself.

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. I think I would have more fun chopping thistles with a butter knife.

If someone deprives you of your history deprives you of your future

Children like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again.

There are problems that just end up being really hard and by definition the only problems that come to my desk are the ones that nobody else can solve.

Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic.

In my life there are not that many questions I can't properly deal with using my $40 adding machine and dog-eared compound interest table.

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

What is needed isn't merely tolerance but acceptance, wholehearted and unconditional.