The National Empowerment Fund we established some time back. And one of the challenges was to build a strong enough asset base for it to operate in a credible manner. And we believe that it can.

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

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

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.

Nature of Human is neither good nor bad, it is simply a fusion of primitive instinctual urges and modern humane conscience.

Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb?

I could have drowned…and my brother didn’t even care.

Women had cup sizes to track their development. Men had a ruler and hope.

Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you.

I know when I was a kid I ate a beetle. I ate a beetle because I thought it was licorice.

..and me holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands

The incremental approach without a strategy doesn't improve the strategy.

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own.

Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.