The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.

The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.

We must learn to live the African way. It's the only way to live in freedom and with dignity

Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal.

he who feeds you, controls you

While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

Everything that man can imagine, he is capable of creating.

I want people to remember me as someone whose life has been helpful to humanity.

May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence.

He who does not feed you can demand nothing of you.

Cast the burden of the present along with the sin of the past and the fear of the future upon the Lord.

The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.

It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus!

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

I'm not conflicted. Because I know. There's me, and there's the show.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them.