The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.

The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.

Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.

Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.

Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.

Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.

Unity and victory are synonymous.

It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.

There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.

People don’t have Guts to leave their Ruts because of their ''Buts''.

Porches could be cleaned with a broom in a few minutes, but the soul could not be swept. It had to be shaken. And shaking the loess from a soul took a lifetime and more strength than most people had.

Beauty is not in complexity but it's in simplicity.

You are responsible for the world that you live in.

As a musician or a performer, you're meant to know what you're about, but it's ridiculous that someone 14 would have any idea of what they're about.

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win

I was born in Massachusetts and lived there until I was thirteen years old.

Hip-hop, you can't really do that when you're in your 50s.

When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.