I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.

The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us.

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them

I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look.

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth.

If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.

Never settle for half the story, and make-up and imagine the rest. Get the full Story!

Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.

Christianity with its doctrine of humility of forgiveness of love is incompatible with the state with its haughtiness its violence its punishment its wars.

Original, pacy, and hugely entertaining-Seanan McGuire knows how to tell a good story!

I experience true freedom when I accept, understand, and move on from the conditioning of the past.

The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality.

Sometimes the only way to win is to die trying.

When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment you create trust!

Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something.

I guess if you're that thin and that small you don't need to take up too much space or breathe that much air. You just keep on going.