The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all.

It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is those who will accept it, morally and physically.

However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.

Actually, even our virility depends on the gaze and the control of women. Without women, we cannot do anything. I think it's a good thing.

The only way for us to come out of poverty is to work hard. Poverty means begging throughout the world.

I am really unable to talk about my life - I don't know my life. I've travelled a lot and this is the life that I have lived, but that doesn't mean that I know myself.

There is time for you to pray, and there is time for you to fight!

Not everyone who sleeps, wakes up the next day. You are blessed.Be happy.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

I've got ice water running through my veins, I'm cool.

He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.

I'm good, but I'm not an angel.

I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.

[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.