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Being a Christian is about living an inviting example.

Your footsteps will have more to say about your spiritual life than knowledge attained.

Skills do not qualify or disqualify any of us from our purpose.

Respect both what you need to know and what you don't need to know. Respect mystery, for mystery is still needed to run the universe." -- The Legacy Letters, by Carew Papritz"Things I didn't know.

I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven't seen, how much I'm not going to see, and how much I still need to see."- The Legacy Letters, by Carew Papritz

Each day when you wake up you have a choice: You can have a good day, or you can have a bad day. So you might as well have a good one.

It always came down to his freaking pride.

Growth in the number of humans is associated with decline in humanity.

When you've got everything and think you've got nothing you've actually got less

There is a pleasure a bee takes in collecting nectar and piling it into a hive. It knows well that the chores involved in such a task will yield sweet results.

Then I saw his kind eyes, a comfort I desired. Then I saw his height, a knight I needed by my side. Then I saw his body, a man I surrendered to.

To eat Ugali is an art of adventure in itself. Forget cutlery because all you need is your lovely fingers.

I do not condemn either the rich or the poor, but the consequences of these two.

My thick and full lips shall pout their African ancestry until all sorrows are kissed out of me.

The joy of comradeship in this foreign land has been killed by silence and overprotection of personal space. I miss the chaos around me for it makes me realise that I am amidst life and alive.

Everyone these days is concerned so much with privacy and forgets the value of human touch. We still need each other but are scared of how it might sound or appear to the other.

May you grow to be a fearless and proud accepting-self human.

At times we are the worst racist enemies of our black selves.

If a lion can growl, why shouldn’t a man cry?

A foolish mind would not raise an eyebrow when things are done diff erently in a foreign culture. An educated mind would try to understand the meaning of it all.

I refuse to behave fraudulently, as if I was anything else but African.

The moment of honouring our humanity is now.

Stop worrying about life, no one survived it.

Then I learnt of “white Christmas”, which again I found very peculiar since we always have a white Christmas at home for it never passes by without eating rice. That is our white Christmas.

Drooling over an African figure that I could never have, I feasted my eyes uponthe swaying mounds of my fellow African sisters.

What are the lessons intended in the stories we tell to our children today?

I was taught how to walk but I did not master the cheating steps of others.

To be a woman is not a weakness.

She is a woman, how can you confuse her for a man?

We all say and do things we regret, but it’s never to late to change, apologize and become a better person

CoMMOn SeNSe iS nOt sO cOmMOn aMoNg coMMon pEOPLe...

Sometimes you want to remember. And sometimes you need to forget.

And you finally get there, you reach a point where you refuse to feel anymore pain and the desire to chase happiness out weighs any choice that gives you reason to question where you're headed.

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is accepting and neutralizing the fear with the power of love.

True courage is in knowing that there is nothing to scare you.

Do it anyway. Fear will melt away.

Don’t desire kindness but desire courage so that you may persist on the right path.

You cannot enrich yourself with material possessions. However, you can enrich yourself by giving yourself away with love, service, kindness, compassion, and courage.

With courage, always go where you fear to go.

Love and kindness is the source of courage.

Master the chaos within yourself and I promise you, you will gain the strength to withstand any storm.

For beautiful success, serve with love and serve with courage.

Let there be room left in your heart for the unimaginable ~ serendipity has a way of showing itself just when you feel like giving up.

The taste of death cannot comes from the recipy of cowerdness.

Let you limitation fuel your determination to work on your strengths.

When the expected occurred, never panic, by keep calming, you gain control over the situation.

I thought I would die without you, in reality I was reborn...

Even the Sun gets tired of rising, but he does it out of love for the Earth...

Live for what you love, and die for what you're unwilling to live without...

We search for happiness across every landscape, if only we knew that the seed in which it first grows, is planted within ourselves...