We must walk rapidly but not run. We must not be opportunists, nor allow our enthusiasms to make us lose the vision of concrete reality.

Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.

We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.

No matter how hot the water from your well, it will not cook your rice.

One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate the cultural strength of African peoples.

Tell no lies' claim no easy victories

We are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults at it.

Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.

National liberation is necessarily an act of culture

Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories...

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.

Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.

A smile is not to take, it's given.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

I'd fallen in love with the devil.

Christ's work needs no repetition. It is final because it is perfect.

The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.

I'm not real big on repentence ... I like revenge better.

It is a good success to take people from the city to the forests; but there is a much greater success: To bring the forest to the people, to the cities! To bring heaven to the hell!

When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.