When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."

I’m a blank canvas that I can paint however I desire. For the first time ever, I get to be the character in my own fantasy land.

Sometimes hate is silence, some stuff are made in such way that they are in front of your eyes.

You are Gods chief creation, and you are here for His pleasure and His glory.

Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

The dog is dressed just like me at the climax of my act.

Thou art a dreaming thing, A fever of thyself.

The day Rick Ross dives into the crowd, is the day we find out who his true fans are.

The world does not run on the number of certificates one has, but on the skills our hands have. Let the youth dream big and aim for the sky. The work of a government should be to open doors.

Would you believe that I once entered a beauty contest? I must have been out of my mind. I not only came in last, I got 361 get-well cards.

River gonna take me, Sing me sweet and sleepy, Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home, It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home