Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

Violence is the result of hatred & greed conquering the heart of lesser souls.

Trust her heart, Assefa, and believe in yourself. No matter the challenge, no matter the foe, be brave, be wise, be the undefeated Mngwa of lore.

A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.

Man for all his genius is but an echo of the original Voice, a reflection of the uncreated Light.

The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language.

The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.

There is no problem only solutions

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.