We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.

You cannot develop people. You must allow people to develop themselves.

Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it.

Decisions made in Washington are more important to us than those made here in Dar es-Salaam. So, maybe my people should be allowed to vote in American presidential elections.

If real development is to take place, the people have to be involved.

Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts.

There is no time to waste. We must either unite now or perish.

If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open. In neither case should the door be blown up at the expense of those inside.

No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people.

Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.

In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.

Never give up on learning because what you put up there in your brain, ” he indicated my head with his index finger, “the Communists won’t ever be able to take away from you.

Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end.

African problems should have African solutions.

The best way to lead people into the future is to connect with them deeply in the present.

Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.

Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.

To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult

Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.

With any character I have played there’s infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.

I was excited about The Dark Knight until Heath Ledger gave away the ending, Batman always wins.