The countries that have collected the most development aid are also the ones that are in the worst shape. Despite the billions that have poured in to Africa, the continent remains poor.

Africa is like a child that immediately cries for its babysitter when something goes wrong. Africa should stand on its own two feet.

Africa must take the first steps into modernity on its own. There must be a change in mentality. We have to stop perceiving ourselves as beggars.

Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent.

In the industrial nations, there's a sense that Africa would go under without development aid. But believe me, Africa existed before you Europeans came along. And we didn't do all that poorly either.

Africa is always only portrayed as a continent of suffering, but most figures are vastly exaggerated.

No one can really picture an African as a businessman. In order to change the current situation, it would be helpful if the aid organizations were to pull out.

Africans only perceive themselves as victims.

HEAVEN: The big apartheid in the sky.

The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!.... G. Washington never slopt over.

I think it's very hard to be sexually explicit and erotic - though there are writers, like K. M. Soehnlein, who are just brilliant at this.

You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Global warming isn't real because I was cold today! Also great news: world hunger is over because I just ate.

When men give lines, women learn to not trust men. When women wear makeup, men learn to not trust women. Male lines and female makeup are divorce training.

Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.