Tell no lies' claim no easy victories

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.

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...

The existence of other people is essentially awkward.

We're too young to want to stop living, because after all, we shouldn't stop something we haven't even started.

She had to remember not to look at him when he smiled like that.

The question isn't so much "Are you parenting the right way?" as it is: "Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?"

I've fallen for one girl too many who's wanted some variation of who I am and only that. It eats you alive.

The Lord watches over us every moment of every day. He is there--and He cares--about every step and every breath.

I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.

I never wanted to marry Roger Clemens. I wanted him to do right by his family.

I've always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then also kind of like to have just the white picket fence life if that makes sense.

He can play that leg glance with a walking stick also.