I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.

Trust Yourself and Believe, Whatever Happens Don't Give Up.

I went to sleep dreaming of Malawi, and all the things made possible when your dreams are powered by your heart.

I will always be looking back at the things I've gone through, thinking of the struggling people I've seen.

Don't insult me today just because I'm poor, you don't know what my future holds!

One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.

BEFORE I DISCOVERED THE miracles of science, magic ruled the world.

My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me.

Chief Wimbe also loved his cat, which was black and white but had no name. In Malawi, only dogs are given names, I don't know why.

When you go to see the lake, you also see the hippos.

Fear nothing but your conscience.

With profound love, kindness, and harmony trees are endlessly extending their blessings. That is why we are still living.

The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.

If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.

When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it.

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.

I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.

If I'm in LA, I'm close to home, and that just brings up all these other things, good and bad. There is a reason why I am not there .

There is only life, there is nobody who lives a life.