We can appreciate each other's languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.

If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.

Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!

There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.

Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.

I'm more trying to connect; I'm more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.

What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another region.

A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.

For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison, I will keep on writing in the language which made you put me in prison."

What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.

If we all learnt cat-speak, we would often find they are saying, “You stupid human, I am trying to tell you something important right now!

We must accept the fact that we have distorted and constricted our lives as adults in accordance with our unconscious beliefs.

So many roads to choose, so many wrong choices to make.

To be a leader, be an example that others may follow.

There will be something anguish or elation that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: Hail to the morning! Come down to me my beautiful unknown.

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.

Young players are starting to come up as well and they will see me as one of the older, experienced ones.

It's cool to have it when your money is working for you.

Europe is slow to react, it is lagging behind in competitiveness, there are problems with demography, population, serious problems with security, internal security and military capabilities.

Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.