We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.

I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.

South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts.

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.

I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.

My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.

All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.

So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

High-quality professions look decently, think profoundly, and act thoughtfully.

I miss the thrill of your self-destructive heart that melts in the sun like chocolate, bittersweet and incandescent.

I don't see what people get from hating other people unless it's a special thing I just ain't hip to.

Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be.

Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about the (perfect) game, but I don't remember when it happened last.

I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

The Labour Party can go into the next election united behind the most radical manifesto on which we have ever campaigned.

I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect.

I can't work in Brooklyn. Unless I'm completely locked away in a studio, there's just too much distraction and stimulation.