Africa needs access to markets.

If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.

Roads are the blood vessels of the economy.

Justice has to be done, justice must be seen to be done, what the AU is simply saying is that what is critical, what is the priority, is peace. That is priority number one now.

The presidency is not an office job. If I only sit in the office in Dar es Salaam I'm not running the country.

At independence, Tanzania had 350, 000 elephants... in 1987, there were only 55, 000 elephants left.

And you’re stuck like a hook through the roof of your mouthTired of living for your sick daysEvery day makes you sickTired of living just get paidWhen you’re dying to livebut you can’t

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.

History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.

Whenever I'm making something, the challenge is always to create something that's interesting for me to listen to.

I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews.

Vitamin D from mushrooms is not only vegan and vegetarian friendly, but you can prepare your own by exposing mushrooms to the summer sun.

Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.

When I learn something, when I know something, when I find something. I always want to share it. Because life is better when you share it.

Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.